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
To the great joy of Berlin and the Brandenburg populations generally, who had been of a Protestant humor, hardly restrainable by Law, for some years past.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 03 by Thomas Carlyle
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
C. C. J. Colt, 149 F. R. 858 Use of name "Webster" not restrainable except where public is misled, 261 1908 Merriam v.
From Copyright: Its History and Its Law by Richard Rogers Bowker
