restrain
verb (used with object)
to hold back from action; keep in check or under control; repress.
restrainable
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a word derived from
restrain.
Example Sentences
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His nightly prayer must be a desperate petition that his less restrainable followers be stricken dumb until the Halifax speech is forgotten.
From Time Magazine Archive
Adj. obedient; complying, compliant; loyal, faithful, devoted; at one's call, at one's command, at one's orders, at one's beck and call; under beck and call, under control. restrainable; resigned, passive; submissive &c.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget
The horse, holding high his stag-like head, deep-shouldered, delicate-limbed, yet full of fire and muscle, hardly restrainable in his sportive freshness, would have taken a good many women all they knew to manage.
From A Veldt Vendetta by Bertram Mitford
But it was with an impatience scarcely restrainable that she waited for the approach of evening which would bring her lover.
From Charlemont; Or, the Pride of the Village. a Tale of Kentucky by William Gilmore Simms
On the morrow, which is the 20th of June, these Hundred and Forty-nine false Curates, no longer restrainable by his Grace of Paris, will desert in a body: let De Breze intervene, and produce—closed doors!
From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle
