Crossword-Solution: RESTRAINING 11 letters, 42 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

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Word Word Type Definition
Restraining p. pr. & vb. n. of Restrain

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RESTRAINING anagram RANGERSITIN, RENTRAISING, RETSINAGRIN, SIGNTRAINER, TINEARRINGS

We have 42 clues for the answer “RESTRAINING”

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holding back 5 answers
tying 31 answers
inhibiting 31 answers
retarding 32 answers
bridling 32 answers
qualifying 33 answers
coercive 34 answers
obstructive 35 answers
Hobbling 35 answers
prohibitive 36 answers
Selective 37 answers
concluding 41 answers
controlling 44 answers
unpermissive 47 answers
rigorist 49 answers
ironhanded 51 answers
preventive 51 answers
Draconian 51 answers
Inexorable 56 answers
persuasive 56 answers
stringent 57 answers
relentless 57 answers
unmerciful 59 answers
Rigorous 60 answers
uncharitable 61 answers
Acrimonious 61 answers
Inclement 62 answers
unrelenting 62 answers
Austere 64 answers
Exacting 66 answers
Barbarian 66 answers
compelling 67 answers
autocratic 68 answers
Stern 68 answers
Callous 69 answers
Tight 71 answers
Unbending 72 answers
barbarous 72 answers
Unkind 73 answers
Adamant 75 answers
CRUEL ___ 78 answers
Exact 92 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with RESTRAINING (5)

The black mouth of a diverging corridor was near at hand, but as she turned to dart into it the ape-man’s eyes fell upon her, and with a quick leap he was at her side, and a restraining hand was laid upon her arm.
The Return of Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
What, then, would it avail the reader to know their names, or the evanescent symbols of their martial rank! Now, however, no whit anticipating the oblivion which awaited their names and feats, the champions advanced through the lists, restraining their fiery steeds, and compelling them to move slowly, while, at the same time, they exhibited their paces, together with the grace and dexterity of the riders.
Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1993
They continued to be uttered in their regular succession, with the cry, ‘My husband, my father, and my brother!’ the counting up to twelve, and ‘Hush!’ The frenzy was so violent, that I had not unfastened the bandages restraining the arms; but, I had looked to them, to see that they were not painful.
A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens 1994
With the listing of these charges, he asked that the court issue a restraining order, an injunction that would order the respondent, Belmont University, to grant the plaintiff her right to a fair and impartial hearing by the university and access to the documents that had been withheld from her.
Wild Justice Ruth M. Sprague 1994
Restraining my impatience--for I was now under a strong temptation to rush blindly at my Visitor and to precipitate him into Space, or out of Flatland, anywhere, so that I could get rid of him--I replied:-- "And what may be the nature of the Figure which I am to shape out by this motion which you are pleased to denote by the word 'upward'? I presume it is describable in the language of Flatland." SPHERE.
Flatland: Edwin A. Abbot 1995

Quotes with RESTRAINING (3)

The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. Once for all; I love her none the less because I knew it, and it had no more influence in restraining me, than if I had devoutly believed her to be human perfection.
Charles Dickens Great Expectations
Often you don’t know whether you’re the hero of a romantic comedy or the villain on a Lifetime special until the restraining order arrives.
Tim Kreider We Learn Nothing
The Prophecy:"The Chosen one possesses a gift That Lucempest needs in order to make a shift. To provide pure sacred life As a concession for his land's strife. If the human soloth seizes wrath This will be the altercation restraining Lucempest fromlaunching on his wicked path. If the Chosen One learns the way, He will prevent his land from having a great debt to pay. When Ira (wrath) vanishes from Lucempest's land Healing will ensue as a component of the great plan. If Lucemp…
CJ Quinn