restrain
verb (used with object)
to hold back from action; keep in check or under control; repress.
unrestrainable
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a word derived from
restrain.
Example Sentences
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A lifelong battle between the unrestrainable appetites of Richard Francis Burton* and the tastes of Victorian England had been joined.
From Time Magazine Archive
Her fear is that her children's generation will harbor an unrestrainable hatred for Israelis.
From Time Magazine Archive
Here her unrestrainable high spirits and levity gave great offence to the citizens.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various
There is something inevitable, unrestrainable about the great books; they seemed to come despite the author.
From Adventures in Contentment by David Grayson
He, an older man who had passed beyond the period when dreams are a part of the physical growth, and unrestrainable, had indulged himself in dreams, and now he must pay in foolish realities.
From The Debtor A Novel by William Dodge Stevens
