Crossword-Solution: CONSTRAIN
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Constrain | v. t. | To secure by bonds; to chain; to bond or confine; to hold tightly; to constringe. |
| Constrain | v. t. | To bring into a narrow compass; to compress. |
| Constrain | v. t. | To hold back by force; to restrain; to repress. |
| Constrain | v. t. | To compel; to force; to necessitate; to oblige. |
| Constrain | v. t. | To violate; to ravish. |
| Constrain | v. t. | To produce in such a manner as to give an unnatural effect; as, a constrained voice. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| CONSTRAIN | anagram | CONSARNIT, TRANSICON, TRANSONIC |
We have 74 clues for the answer “CONSTRAIN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Limit or hold back | 1 answer |
| Jailbird transport? | 1 answer |
| Impose limitations | 1 answer |
| Hold back by force | 1 answer |
| Compel; constrict | 1 answer |
| COMPULSION, bring about by | 1 answer |
| BRING about by compulsion | 1 answer |
| Restrict severely | 2 answers |
| With great effort | 3 answers |
| Bring about by force | 3 answers |
| ASTRICT | 3 answers |
| Manacle | 12 answers |
| concuss | 14 answers |
| Necessitate | 14 answers |
| Hold in. | 14 answers |
| Incarcerate | 17 answers |
| Extort | 22 answers |
| Immure | 25 answers |
| Withhold. | 28 answers |
| Intern | 32 answers |
| Bulldoze | 33 answers |
| Imprison | 35 answers |
| Jug | 36 answers |
| Coerce | 36 answers |
| proscribe | 36 answers |
| bridle | 36 answers |
| Abstain | 37 answers |
| Threaten | 37 answers |
| Aggrieve | 38 answers |
| BUFFALO ___ | 38 answers |
| tyrannise | 39 answers |
| contain | 43 answers |
| Jail | 44 answers |
| Impose | 44 answers |
| Stress | 48 answers |
| Injure | 48 answers |
| Prohibit | 49 answers |
| Grieve | 49 answers |
| Grip | 50 answers |
| MAKE less excessive | 50 answers |
| Elicit | 50 answers |
| Overpower | 51 answers |
| Inhibit | 52 answers |
| MAKE less flexible | 53 answers |
| Pressure | 53 answers |
| MAKE firm | 54 answers |
| Railroad | 54 answers |
| Choke | 56 answers |
| Propel | 57 answers |
| Deny | 58 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAEER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CONSTRAIN (5)
The costs of maintaining a large military seriously constrain the government's efforts to provide essential social services.
Certes, you constrain me to sit down, since you enter upon such commonplace terms, of which each vile crowder hath a stock that might last from hence to Christmas.” “Proud damsel,” said De Bracy, incensed at finding his gallant style procured him nothing but contempt—“proud damsel, thou shalt be as proudly encountered.
Yet he besought us to allow him to stay with us in Tarlenheim, and not venture his head again in the lion’s den; but we had need of him there, and, although I refused to constrain him, I prevailed on him by increased rewards to go back and carry tidings to Madame de Mauban that I was working for her, and that, if she could, she should speak one word of comfort to the King.
Such another small basin of thin gruel as his own was all that he could, with thorough self-approbation, recommend; though he might constrain himself, while the ladies were comfortably clearing the nicer things, to say: “Mrs.
Continuing weak prices for commodity exports, a bloated public-sector wage bill, and a large foreign debt will continue to constrain economic development, this despite the 50% currency devaluation in January 1994 designed to restore international price competitiveness.
Quotes with CONSTRAIN (3)
For where is the man that has incontestable evidence of the truth of all that he holds, or of the falsehood of all he condemns; or can say that he has examined to the bottom all his own, or other men's opinions? The necessity of believing without knowledge, nay often upon very slight grounds, in this fleeting state of action and blindness we are in, should make us more busy and careful to inform ourselves than constrain others.
Raise from your bed of languor Raise from your bed of dismay Your friends will not come tomorrow As they did not come today You must rely on yourself, they said, You must rely on yourself, Oh but I find this pill so bitter said the poor man As he took it from the shelf Crying, O sweet Death come to me Come to me for company, Sweet Death it is only you I can Constrain for company.
Grief, my friend, forces us to search our souls and find answers to issues that constrain us from becoming better human beings.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1977–2018).