restrainer
Americannoun
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a person or thing that restrains.
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Photography. a chemical added to a developer to retard its action.
Etymology
Origin of restrainer
Example Sentences
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Where are the supposed realists and restrainers who run this Administration?
He horrified the neo-isolationist “restrainers” who hoped that his second term would see the U.S. turning away from foreign quarrels to focus on “America first.”
“I don’t believe that the secretary is a card-carrying realist and restrainer,” said Mr. Ruger, whom Mr. Trump nominated in September to be his ambassador to Afghanistan.
From New York Times
When they emerge from the restrainer they are killed, instantly, as a bolt powered by compressed air shoots through the brain.
From Economist
In an experiment, researchers trapped one rat inside an uncomfortable, coffinlike restrainer with a door that could only be opened by a free-roaming rat.
From Washington Post
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