restraining
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restraining
verb
- present participle and gerund of restrain
noun restrainings
- The act by which someone or something is restrained. She had the privilege of a soul beyond our minor rules and restrainings to speak her wishes to the true wife of a mock husband—no husband; less a husband than this shadow of a woman a wife, she said; […]
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Closest in meaning: restrict, limit, hold back, keep back, confine, hold, cumber, encumber, constrain, keep, trammel, bound, intimidate, throttle, restraint, constraint
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title = {restraining},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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