Crossword-Solution: RESTRAIN 8 letters, 97 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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Word Word Type Definition
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.

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RESTRAIN anagram RETRAINS, STRAINER, TERRAINS, TRAINERS, TRANSIRE

We have 97 clues for the answer “RESTRAIN”

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to close within bounds, limit or hold back from movement 1 answer
hold (someone) back from action 1 answer
Put in a straitjacket, e.g. 1 answer
Put in a straitjacket 1 answer
PLACE under legal obligation 1 answer
Limit relaxation, taking shower? 1 answer
Check design of trainers 1 answer
BITE back (speech) 1 answer
Place limits on 2 answers
CAPACITATE (ant.) 3 answers
ENABLE (ant.) 6 answers
Keep in check 6 answers
Hold down 8 answers
back Hold 12 answers
rein 12 answers
keep order 13 answers
Handcuff 13 answers
MAKE against 14 answers
attemper 17 answers
MAKE less violent 18 answers
Interdict 21 answers
Seclude 22 answers
MAKE slower 22 answers
shorten sail 23 answers
MAKE motionless 23 answers
Shackle 24 answers
enslave 24 answers
Dissuade 25 answers
Obviate 25 answers
Tether 26 answers
stint 26 answers
tread on 27 answers
Police 27 answers
Stomp 27 answers
Decelerate 30 answers
MAKE unwilling 31 answers
Brake 31 answers
Intern 32 answers
Hobble 33 answers
Retain 34 answers
detain 34 answers
bate 34 answers
Pacify 35 answers
Imprison 35 answers
Patrol 36 answers
bridle 36 answers
Harness 38 answers
Conquer 39 answers
clip the wings 39 answers
strangle 39 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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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.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
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.
The 1991 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency. 1992
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.
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992
His living expenses were never large, but he could not restrain himself from buying graceful and useless objects.
The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992
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.
The 1992 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency. 1993

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.
Ayn Rand
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…
Calvin Coolidge
Do not restrain yourself from fellowshipping with people, regardless of their age or status
Sunday Adelaja
Where this answer appears

Appears in: Crossroads, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 13 times in crossword archives (1976–2021).