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- Dictionaryrestrain/rɪˈstreɪn/
verb
- 1. prevent (someone or something) from doing something; keep under control or within limits: "the need to restrain public expenditure" Similar Opposite
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RESTRAIN definition: 1. to control the actions or behaviour of someone by force, especially in order to stop them from…. Learn more.
The meaning of RESTRAIN is to prevent from doing, exhibiting, or expressing something. How to use restrain in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Restrain.
RESTRAIN meaning: 1. to control the actions or behaviour of someone by force, especially in order to stop them from…. Learn more.
If you restrain an emotion or you restrain yourself from doing something, you prevent yourself from showing that emotion or doing what you wanted or intended to do.
Restrain definition: to hold back from action; keep in check or under control; repress. See examples of RESTRAIN used in a sentence.
Restrain means to hold yourself back, which is exactly what you'd have to do if, after weeks of dieting, you found yourself face to face with a dessert case filled with pies, cakes, and cookies. Restrain can also mean to restrict or hold back someone else, to prevent someone from doing what they're intending to do.
Definition of restrain verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. to stop somebody/something from doing something, especially by using physical force. restrain somebody/something The prisoner had to be restrained by the police. He placed a restraining hand on her arm.
1. to hold back from action; check or control; repress. 2. to deprive of liberty, as by arrest; confine. 3. to limit or hamper the activity, growth, or effect of: to restrain trade with Cuba. re•strain`a•bil′i•ty, n. syn: See check.
RESTRAIN definition: 1. to stop someone doing something, sometimes by using force: 2. to limit something: . Learn more.
Definition of restrain verb from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. to stop someone or something from doing something, especially by using physical force restrain somebody/something The prisoner had to be restrained by the police.
