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
C. C. J. McPherson, 158 F. R. 355 Unfair competition not restrainable if copyrightable work is not copyrighted, 264 1908 Bobbs-Merrill Co. v.
From Copyright: Its History and Its Law by Richard Rogers Bowker
The chancellor knew the daring of the king, restrainable by nothing, and he doubted not that he was ready to do this.
From With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. by Henryk Sienkiewicz
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
