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
"Thank God, for this!" burst from the inmost soul of Paul, with unrestrainable feeling.
From Home as Found by James Fenimore Cooper
Then comes a crowd of faces which have no particular significance, being simply the outcome of the unrestrainable fun of the carver.
From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge
"You dare——" Lord Denningham had succeeded admirably; his adversary was ablaze with unrestrainable anger.
From A Blot on the Scutcheon by Mabel Winifred Knowles
