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单词 restrain
释义 re·strain
\rə̇ˈstrān, rēˈs-\ verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
Etymology: Middle English restreynen, restraynen, from Middle French restreindre, restraindre, from Latin restringere to draw back tight, restrain, restrict, from re- + stringere to draw tight — more at strain
transitive verb
1.
 a. : to hold (as a person) back from some action, procedure, or course : prevent from doing something (as by physical or moral force or social pressure)
  < restraining her charges … from overt acts of violence — C.H.Grandgent >
 b. : to limit or restrict to or in respect to a particular action or course : keep within bounds or under control
  < restraining state banks which were inclined to do unsound business — Dict. of American Biography >
2.
 a. : to moderate or limit the force, effect, development, or full exercise of : prevent or rule out excesses or extremes of
  < restraining lax management >
 b. : to keep from being manifested or performed : repress
  < could hardly restrain her astonishment from being visible — Jane Austen >
3. obsolete : to draw back (as a rein) tightly
4.
 a. : to deprive of liberty : place under arrest or restraint
 b. : to deprive (as of liberty) by restraint : abridge the freedom of — used with of
5. obsolete : forbear, forbid
intransitive verb
1. archaic : refrain
2. : to restrain a person or thing
Synonyms:
 check, curb, bridle, snaffle, inhibit: restrain is a general term suggesting use of force, pressure, or strenuous persuasion to hold back a person or thing from a course or action or to prevent the action itself
  < Delaware, in commissioning its delegates, restrained them from assenting to any change in the “rule of suffrage” — E.K.Alden >
  < one wants to produce in the child the same respect for the garden that restrains the grown-ups from picking wantonly — Bertrand Russell >
  restrain may also be used with any moderating action, any action that prevents extremes
  < a law of 17 B.C. gave a legal position to slaves informally manumitted … but drastically restrained their power to acquire and bequeath property — John Buchan >
  check indicates a restraining of a course, activity, impetus, or effect; its suggestions may rest on uses of the word in horsemanship, chess, or military affairs
  < if you, my dear father, will not take the trouble of checking her exuberant spirits … she will soon be beyond the reach of amendment — Jane Austen >
  < the ambition of churchmen to shine in worldly contests is disciplined and checked by the broader interests of the church — Henry Adams >
  curb, bridle, and snaffle likewise carry suggestions from horsemanship, curb indicating drastic and quick checking, bridle indicating a steady, continued guiding, controlling, holding from excess, and snaffle indicating a light curbing
  < control of money, bills, and the right of electing the councillors curbed somewhat the Governor's immense power — American Guide Series: Massachusetts >
  < endowed … with zest, with abundance, with romping blood. She had never been bridled in mind or body — Francis Hackett >
  < whose potential violence of feeling is bridled by good form — New York Herald Tribune Book Review >
  inhibit, largely psychological or scientific in its suggestions, is likely to bring into consideration repressive or curbing effects of custom, morality, precept, or conscience
  < the inherent immorality of the acts has become as strong an inhibiting factor as the fear of punishment — T.L.Karsten & J.H.Mathias >
  < a more and more courageous, a less and less inhibited medium of expression — F.B.Millett >
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