Crossword-Solution: RESTRAIN
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Restrain | v. t. | To draw back again; to hold back from acting, proceeding, or advancing, either by physical or moral force, or by any interposing obstacle; to repress or suppress; to keep down; to curb. |
| Restrain | v. t. | To draw back toghtly, as a rein. |
| Restrain | v. t. | To hinder from unlimited enjoiment; to abridge. |
| Restrain | v. t. | To limit; to confine; to restrict. |
| Restrain | v. t. | To withhold; to forbear. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| RESTRAIN | anagram | RETRAINS, STRAINER, TERRAINS, TRAINERS, TRANSIRE |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RTEAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with RESTRAIN (5)
Whatever pure thou in the body enjoy’st (And pure thou wert created) we enjoy In eminence, and obstacle find none Of membrane, joynt, or limb, exclusive barrs: Easier then Air with Air, if Spirits embrace, Total they mix, Union of Pure with Pure Desiring; nor restrain’d conveyance need As Flesh to mix with Flesh, or Soul with Soul.
NORRISH, Office of Tokelau Affairs _#_Suffrage: NA _#_Elections: NA _#_Communists: probably none _#_Member of: SPC _#_Diplomatic representation: none (territory of New Zealand) _#_Flag: the flag of New Zealand is used _*_Economy _#_Overview: Tokelau's small size, isolation, and lack of resources greatly restrain economic development and confine agriculture to the subsistence level.
Without any effort of his will, or power to restrain himself, he shrieked aloud: an outcry that went pealing through the night, and was beaten back from one house to another, and reverberated from the hills in the background; as if a company of devils, detecting so much misery and terror in it, had made a plaything of the sound, and were bandying it to and fro.
His living expenses were never large, but he could not restrain himself from buying graceful and useless objects.
PEREZ, Office of Tokelau Affairs Suffrage: NA Elections: NA Member of: SPC Diplomatic representation: none (territory of New Zealand) Flag: the flag of New Zealand is used :Tokelau Economy Overview: Tokelau's small size, isolation, and lack of resources greatly restrain economic development and confine agriculture to the subsistence level.
Quotes with RESTRAIN (3)
Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.
Our government rests upon religion. It is from that source that we derive our reverence for truth and justice, for equality and liberality, and for the rights of mankind. Unless the people believe in these principles they cannot believe in our government. There are only two main theories of government in our world. One rests on righteousness and the other on force. One appeals to reason, and the other appeals to the sword. One is exemplified in the republic, the other is repr…
Do not restrain yourself from fellowshipping with people, regardless of their age or status
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 13 times in crossword archives (1976–2021).