Restrain

Definition: Restrain

Restrain

Verb

1. Keep under control; keep in check; "suppress a smile"; "Keep your temper"; "keep your cool".

2. Place limits on; "restrict the use of this parking lot".

3. To close within bounds, limit or hold back from movement; "This holds the local until the express passengers change trains"; "About a dozen animals were held inside the stockade"; "The illegal immigrants were held at a detention center"; "The terrorists held the journalists for ransom".

4. Hold back.

5. To compel or deter by or as if by threats.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "restrain" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Note: Restrain \Re*strain"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Restrained; present participle verb or noun Restraining.]. (references)

Synonyms: Restrain

Compulsion

Extort, wring from; squeeze, put on the squeeze; put on the screws, turn on the screw; drag into; bind, bind over; pin down, tie down; require, tax, put in force; commandeer; restrain.

Contraction

Render smaller, lessen, diminish, contract, draw in, narrow, coarctate; boil down; constrict, constringe; condense, compress, squeeze, corrugate, crimp, crunch, crush, crumple up, warp, purse up, pack, squeeze, stow; pinch, tighten, strangle; cramp; dwarf, bedwarf; shorten; circumscribe; restrain.

Counteraction

Verb: counteract; run counter, clash, cross; interfere with, conflict with; contravene; jostle; go against, run against, beat against, militate against; stultify; antagonize, block, oppose; traverse; withstand; (resist); hinder; repress; (restrain); react; (recoil).

Dissuasion

Disincline, indispose, shake, stagger; dispirit; discourage, dishearten; deter; repress, hold back, keep back; (restrain); render averse; repel; turn aside; (deviation); wean from; act as a drag; (hinder); throw cold water on, damp, cool, chill, blunt, calm, quiet, quench; deprecate.

Excitability

Compose, appease; (moderate); propitiate; repress; (restrain); render insensible; overcome one's excitability, allay one's excitability, repress one's excitability; master one's feelings.

Hindrance

Keep off, stave off, ward off; obviate; avert, antevert; turn aside, draw off, prevent, forefend, nip in the bud; retard, slacken, check, let; counteract, countercheck; preclude, debar, foreclose, estop; inhibit; shackle; (restrain); restrict.

Moderation

Tranquilize, pacify, assuage, appease, swag, lull, soothe, compose, still, calm, calm down, cool, quiet, hush, quell, sober, pacify, tame, damp, lay, allay, rebate, slacken, smooth, alleviate, rock to sleep, deaden, smooth, throw cold water on, throw a wet blanket over, turn off; slake; curb; (restrain); tame; (subjugate); smooth over; pour oil on the waves, pour oil on the troubled waters; pour balm into, mattre de l'eau dans son vin.

Prohibition

Keep in, keep within bounds; restrain; cohibit, withhold, limit, circumscribe, clip the wings of, restrict; interdict, taboo; put under an interdiction, place under an interdiction; put under the ban, place under the ban; proscribe; exclude, shut out; shut the door, bolt the door, show the door; warn off; dash the cup from one's lips; forbid the banns.

Restraint

Verb: restrain, check; put under restraint, lay under restraint; enthral, enthrall, inthral, inthrall, bethral, bethrall; restrict; debar; (hinder); constrain; coerce; (compel); curb, control; hold back, hold from, hold in, hold in check, hold within bounds, keep back, keep from, keep in, keep in check, keep within bounds; hold in leash, hold in leading strings; withhold.

Safety

Make safe, render safe; Adjective:; protect; take care of; (care); preserve; cover, screen, shelter, shroud, flank, ward; guard; (defend); secure; (restrain); entrench, intrench, fence round; (circumscribe); house, nestle, ensconce; take charge of.

Subjection

Break in, tame; subject, subjugate; master; tread down, tread under foot; weigh down; drag at one's chariot wheels; reduce to subjection, reduce to slavery; enthrall, inthrall, bethrall; enslave, lead captive; take into custody; (restrain); rule; drive into a corner, hold at the sword's point; keep under; hold in bondage, hold in leading strings, hold in swaddling clothes.

Crosswords: Restrain

First this little planet with its winds and ways, and then all the laws of mind and matter that restrain him. Then the planets about him and at last out across immensity to the stars (Things to Come; writing credit: H.G. Wells)

Under me, this rule will change, for I will restrain man. (Colossus: The Forbin Project; writing credit: James Bridges; D.F. Jones)

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Books

• "Charge it" : or, Keeping up with Harry: a story of fashionable extravagance and of the successful efforts to restrain it made by the Honorable Socrates Potter, the genial friend of Lizzie (reference)

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So that, however it may be mistaken, the end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom: for in all the states of created beings capable of laws, where there is no law, there is no freedom. (Second Treatise of Government)

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Angry as she was, the thought of the moment made her resolve to restrain herself when she did speak

However, she was compelled to restrain herself

And Tom tried to restrain his hard smothered sobbing

It is only the serious eye peering from and the sincere life passed within it which restrain laughter and consecrate the costume of any people

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Tumor suppressor genes are a family of normal genes that instruct cells to produce proteins that restrain cell growth and division. (references)

Civil Liberties

India

The Government also has been criticized for not attempting to restrain the country's radical Hindu groups. (references)

Singapore

The Maintenance of Religious Harmony Act (MRHA), which was prompted by actions that the Government perceived as threats to religious harmony, including aggressive and "insensitive" proselytizing and the "mixing of religion and politics," gives the Government the power to restrain leaders and members of religious groups and institutions from carrying out political activities, "exciting disaffection against" the Government, creating "ill-will" between religious groups, or carrying out subversive activities. (references)

Economic History

Dominican Rep

However, the relatively high tariffs continue to restrain the industry's growth. (references)

Human Rights

Israel and the occupied territories

IDF soldiers have standing orders to protect, not restrain or arrest, Israeli settlers in the occupied territories. (references)

Malawi

The report notes that techniques used by police included beatings, physical assault, and the use of wire instead of handcuffs to restrain prisoners and to force confessions. (references)

Cameroon

Local human rights groups noted that local authorities, even the special antigang units, paid more attention to due process than in previous years; they believe that the paramilitary forces have received strict instructions to restrain their activities in an attempt to avoid another scandal that would embarrass the Government. (references)

Political Rights

Egypt

Nevertheless, the Assembly maintains the authority to challenge or restrain the executive in the areas of economic and social policy, although it may not modify the budget except with the Government's approval. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "restrain": restrain from ♦ restrain one's appetite ♦ restrain oneself ♦ restrain smb. from doing smth.. Additional references.

Afrikaans

regeer (control, govern, rule). (various references)

Albanian

përmbaj (carry, check, choke, comprise, constrain, contain, control, Cork, detain, deter, embrace, feature, gulp, hold, hold back, hold in, include, incorporate, pocket, repress, restock, stay), mposht (conquer, depress, lick, manage, outdo, overbear, overcome, overmaster, overpower, quench, subdue, take care of, vanquish), kufizoj (circumscribe, confine, enclose, hedge in, hem, inclose, limit, localise, localize, narrow, restrict, specialize, stint, straiten, terminate, tie, truncate), burgos (immure, imprison, incarcerate, quod, send up), bëj zapt (circumvent). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كتمان (concealment, hiding, suppression), ‏كتم (conceal, concealment, harbor, harbour, hide, hiding, repress, secrete, subdue, suppress, withhold), ‏كبت (bridle, check, contain, down, hold, hold back, inhibit, inhibition, keep, keep back, repress, repression, restraint, stifle, subdue, suppress, suppression, withhold), ‏كبح (arrest, bridle, check, contain, control, curb, hamper, hinder, hold, hold back, inhibit, inhibition, keep back, keep down, keep under control, leash, master, press, prevent, rein, repress, repression, restraint, steady, subdual, subdue, suppress, suppression, tame, withhold), ‏قيد (bind, bond, bridle, chain, check, confine, derestrict, enchain, entry, fetter, handcuff, hold back, impose restrictions on, item, limit, limitation, manacle, qualify, record, register, restrict, restriction, rope, set bounds to, set down, shackle, tie, tie up), ‏قمع (bridle, check, crush, funnel, put down, quash, quell, repress, repression, stamp down, subdue, suppress, suppression), ‏حجز (attach, attachment, be taken, bespeak, bond, confine, confinement, constrain, derequisition, detain, detention, distrain, foreclose, have reservations, immure, impound, incarcerate, incarceration, keep, lock, mew, put away, recapture, reservation, reserve, retention, seize, seizure, sequester, sequestration, shut, staunch, stop, tackle), ‏حرم (abridge, ban, be bereaved, be forbidden, bereave, contraband, debar, deny, deprive, disable, dispossess, divest, excommunicate, forbade, forbid, geld, interdict, inviolable, outlaw, prohibit, proscribe, rob, sacred, sanctuary, starve, suppress, wife), ‏إعتقل (apprehend, arrest, be detained, lag, lock up, nab, pick up, seize, sneeze). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сдържам (command, contain, guard, pocket, press back, repress, smother, stifle, suppress), възпирам (control, debar, deter, enchain, interdict, prohibit, repress, retain, stay, swaddle), въздържам (hold in, keep back, keep in, refrain, withhold), обуздавам (bit, bridle, chastise, curb, hamshackle, harness, leash, manage, quell, rein in, repress, school, smother, steady), затварям (case, cicatrize, close, constrain, douse, enclose, gaol, hem, house, immure, imprison, incarcerate, jail, latch, lock, lock up, mew, obturate, pen, prison, pull to, screw up, seal off, shut, shut away, shut in, shut up, stop, turn off), задържам (apprehend, arrest, can, contain, detain, deter, entrap, hold, hold back, hold off, hold over, hold up, immobilize, inhibit, keep, keep away, keep back, keep down, occlude, press back, reserve, retain, trig), арестувам (apprehend, arrest, attach, bring in, bust, impound, nab, nail, nip, pick up, pinch, pull, rap, round up, run in, secure, seize, take in, take up), попречвам (deter, forestall, hinder, intervene, preclude, prevent, prohibit, put off, stop), подтискам (constrict, grind down, gulp, oppress, repress, suppress, weight down). (various references)

Chinese 

錮 (denseness of clouds, obstinate disease, to stop), 詰 (investigate, scold), 軛 (yoke), 羈 (halter), 按捺 (control), 懿 (virtuous), 憋 (hold back, hold in, stifle, to choke, to hold), 拘禁 (constraint), 拘 (adhere, capture), �'� (regulate), 克制 (forbear, forbearing, Forbore, forebear, Refrained, Refraining, renunciation, restrained, Restraining, restraint). (various references)

Czech

zdržovat (buttonhole, distract, hinder, hold off, impede, obstruct), překážet (get in the way, hamper, hinder, impede, interrupt, resist, stymie, tie up), krotit (constrain, curb, hamshackle, tame). (various references)

Danish

regere (control, govern, rule), lede (govern, head up). (various references)

Dutch

betomen (bridle, check), beteugelen (bridle, check), bedwingen (bridle, check). (various references)

Esperanto

regi (control, govern, rule), estri (govern, head up), deteni (abstract), bridi (bridle, check). (various references)

Faeroese

ráða fyri (control, govern, rule), tjóðra (bridle, check), sjórna (control, govern, rule), binda (bind, braid, bridle, check, connect, join, knit, plait, tie, tie up, twine, wreathe). (various references)

Farsi 

مهارکردن , نگهداشتن (Hold, Imprison, Prop, Sustain), جلوگیری کردن از (Bridle, Check, Repel). (various references)

Finnish

pidättää (arrest, detain, hold back, keep back, reserve, take into custody, withhold), hillitä (calm, check, control, curb, hold back, master, repress, suppress), hallita (control, dominate, govern, reign, rule), ehkäistä (check, hamper, hinder, impede, obstruct, prevent). (various references)

French

retenir (recall, recollect, remember, reserve, retain, reverberate), réprimer (repress, retain), gouverner. (various references)

Frisian

regearje (control, govern, rule). (various references)

German

zurückhalten (abstract, detain, hold, hold back, hold in, keep, keep back, refrain, repress, retain, retard, suppress, to hold back, to refrain, to reserve, to retard, withheld, withhold, withholds). (various references)

Greek 

αναχαιτίζω (check, contain, inhibit, intercert, stem, withhold). (various references)

Hebrew 

למתן (decelerate, moderate, slow down, temper, tone down), למת�' (bridle, curb, rein, toggle), לחסום (bar, block, close, jam, obstruct, occlude, prevent, shut, shut out, stem), ל�"בלי�' (forbear, repress), לבלום (brake, hold back, stop), לרסן (bridle, curb). (various references)

Hungarian

visszatart (contain, detain, hold, hold back, hold in, hold off, keep in, recoup, retain, retard, to check, to contain, to detain, to entrap, to hold back, to keep back, to keep from, to pocket, to pull, to pull up, to recoup, to repress, to restrain, to retain, to stay, withhold), megakadályoz (balk, counteract, deny, estop, foil, hinder, hindrance, prevent, prohibit, stymie, to arrest, to avert, to balk, to bar, to baulk, to check, to encumber, to hinder, to impede, to inhibit, to interfere, to keep from, to preclude, to put off, to set back, to stymie, to thwart), fegyelmezi magát, újra szûr. (various references)

Icelandic

stilla (control, govern, rule). (various references)

Indonesian

mengungkung (impede movement, shackle), mengepung (beset, besiege, meb, surround), mencegah (combat, prevent, prohibited), menahan nafsu. (various references)

Italian

reprimere (inhibit, put down, quash, quell, repress, smother, squelch, suppress), trattenere (Bate, contain, curb, deduct, detain, deter, entertain, hold, hold back, hold off, keep, keep oneself, pull in, remain, retain, suppress, withhold), imprigionare (confine, gaol, immure, imprison, jail, put in prison, trap), governare (conduct, control, govern, rule, run, steer, sway, take care), frenare (brake, check, contain, control, curb, stem), dominare (be on top of things, command, control, control oneself, curb, dominate, govern, Lord, master, order, overbear, overlook, overmaster, overrule, predominate, rule, subdue, sway, walk over), contenere (carry, comprise, contain, contain oneself, encompass, hold, include, stem). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

留め立て (restraint), 止め立て (restraint). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

とめ� て (restraint). (various references)

Korean 

� �지하십시�" (Deter). (various references)

Manx

streeaney (bridle, check, contain, containment, control, curb, rein, retard, retardation), smaghtaghey (afflict, castigation, chasten, chastening, chastisement, check, control, correct, correct as child, discipline, govern, master, mortify, overmaster, subject, taming), plooghey (asphyxia, asthma, choke, choking, congest, congestion, cushion, fugginess, glut, inundate, inundation, muffle, smother, smothering, stifle, suffocate, suffocation, tamp), lhiettal (clog, counteract, discourage, hinder, impede, inhibit, intercept, obstruct, prevent, prevention, restrict, stop down, veto), freayll fo (control, keep under), cur streean er (check, delimit, moderate, pull in), cummal veih (refrain, withhold). (various references)

Norwegian

styre (administer, control, direct, govern, rule), beherske (control, govern, rule). (various references)

Papiamen

reina (control, govern, queen, rule), goberná (control, govern, rule). (various references)

Pig Latin

estrainray.(various references)

Polish

rządzić (control, govern, rule), powstrzymywać (abstract), panować (control, govern, rule). (various references)

Portuguese

reger (administer, conduct, control, dominate, govern, manage, rule), deter (abstract, arrest, buttonhole, dam up, detain, deter, hold back, intercept, refrain, resist, retain, stop, suspend). (various references)

Romanian

reţine (arrest, bespeak, book, catch, confine, delay, detain, dock, engage, fix, ground, hinder, hold, hold in, impede, keep, keep back, keep in, laten, learn, memorize, nota bene, refrain, remember, reserve, retain, secure, stop, take by the button, trammel, withhold), micşora (abate, abridge, attenuate, Bate, belittle, contract, cut, deaden, decrease, detract, dilute, dock, drop, dwarf, ease, knock down, lessen, lighten, lower, mellow, mitigate, narrow, palliate, pare, pare down, put down, rebate, reduce, remit, retrench, shorten, stop, subdue, subjugate, weaken, whittle away), înãbuşi (blanket, bring under, choke, control, deaden, deafen, drown, hush, keep down, kill, mortify, muffle, quash, quell, quench, smother, stifle, strangle, suffocate, suppress, throttle), încurca (complicate, confound, confuse, cumber, discomfit, embrangle, embroil, entangle, floor, foul, gravel, hamper, hash, hinder, intertangle, involve, jumble, maze, medley, muddle, nonplus, perplex, pile up, pose, put out, puzzle, shuffle, sputter, stump, tangle, trouble), înfrâna (bridle, curb, refrain, tame, vanquish), conduce (accompany, administer, be in command, boss, boss the show, captain, carry on, charge, command, conduct, control, convey, direct, drive, escort, govern, guide, handle, head, husband, lead, lead the way, manage, master, operate, order, overrule, pilot, preside, rule, run, sail, see, see off, show, show up, steer, superintend, supervise, take, wield), controla (audit, check, control, direct, examine, govern, inspect, intercept, observe, oversee, prove, rule, sift, supervise, test, verify), împiedica (arrest, back, balk, baulk, block, brake, check, circumvent, clog, delay, detain, deter, embarrass, encumber, forbid, foreclose, hamper, help, hinder, hitch, hobble, hold, hopple, impede, inhibit, intercept, lock, obstruct, prevent, put on the brakes, shackle, shut out, snag, stay, stop, trammel, withhold), guverna (control, govern, manage, reign, rule, steer, sway), zãgãzui (bank, dam, embank, stem), opri (abate, abstain, arrest, balk, bar, baulk, break, bring to, bring to a stop, call off, circumvent, clog, collar, contain, curb, cut off, deflate, delay, discontinue, end, estop, forbear, forbid, foreclose, halt, hinder, hold, inhibit, interdict, keep back, phase out, prohibit, pull up, put a stopper on, put out, quench, retain, shut out, snag, staunch, stay, stem, stop, strangle, subside, taboo, withhold), pãzi (await, award, be careful, defend, fend, guard, heep an eye on, herd, keep, shield, tend, treasure, watch), stãpâni (check, command, control, dominate, get under, govern, have, hold, hold in leash, keep in, manage, own, quell, rage, reign, ride, rule, subdue, subjugate, sway, vanquish, wield), stãvili (arrest, bar, barricade, block, dam up, delay, dike, embank, hinder, quench, refrain, retain, retard, shut, slacken, slug, stem), struni (bridle, curb), forţa din nou. (various references)

Russian 

удерживать (coerce, dam back, deter, hold, hold back, hold in, keep back, recoup, withhold). (various references)

Scottish

caisg (check, curb, quell, quench, stop), bac (a crook, hindrance, restraint). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zadržati (delay, detain, dwell, hold back, hold down, impeach, keep, keep back, reserve, retain, stem, stop, withhold), uzdržavati se (forbear, hang back), uzdržavati (withhold), uzdržati, obuzdavati (hold back), obuzdati (chasten, control, curb, keep in, leash, rein, rein in, school). (various references)

Spanish

refrenar (check, contain, control, govern, hold back, refrain, rein, rein back, rein in, rule), contener (bottle up, bridle, check, comprise, contain, control, enclose, govern, hold, hold back, hold in, include, incorporate, intercept, keep back, keep down, keep in, press back, rule, run by, smother, suppress), capitanear (be in command, captain, command, govern, head, head up, lead, order, skipper). (various references)

Sranan

prey edeman (govern, head up), prey basi (govern, head up). (various references)

Swedish

inskränka (confine, cramp, hedge, limit, reduce, restrict), avhålla (hold, prevent), återhålla. (various references)

Turkish

tutmak (abide by, add up to, affect, Bate, be, bespeak, bind, book, catch, charter, check, choke, choke back, choke down, choke off, claw hold of, clench, clutch, cog, cohere, come to, confine, constrain, contain, cost, cramp, engage, Favor, favour, figure out at, fish, gather, get hold of, grapple, grasp, grip, guard, hang onto, hire, hire on, hold, hold back, hold in, hold on, hold on to, hold up, inhibit, intercept, keep, keep back, keep down, keep in, keep to, occupy, play, play on, play upon, possess, redeem, remand, reserve, retain, save, seize, seize on, stanchion, stick, stick to, stifle, strangle, support, take, take up, tot up, total, uphold, withhold, work out at), sınırlamak (bound, call off, circumscribe, confine, constrain, hedge, hedge about, hedge around, hem in, hold in, imprison, limit, line off, localize, qualify, restrict, straitjacket, terminate, tie), kısıtlamak (bound, circumscribe, clip one's wings, constrict, cramp, hedge, hedge about, hedge around, hem in, inhibit, limit, qualify, restrict, stint, tie down), hapsetmek (bar, cage, confine, detain, immure, imprison, incarcerate, intern, jail, lock up, mew, mew up, mure, pen, pen in, pen up, shut in, shut up), frenlemek (bottle up, brake, bridle, check, contain, curb, govern, keep in, rein back, retard), engellemek (balk, bar, baulk, block, circumvent, clamp the lid on smth., clog, counterwork, cramp, Crimp, cross, cumber, dam, dam up, defeat, embarrass, encumber, fetter, foil, gum up, hamper, hedge, hedge about, hedge around, hinder, hobble, impede, inhibit, keep down, keep from, obstruct, preclude, prevent from, put the lid on smth., resist, save, shut out, snag, stem, stymie, surety, trammel), dizginlemek (bridle, keep a tight rein on, rein back, rein in), bastırmak (allay, alleviate, appease, assuage, bear against, beat down, bottle up, Burke, choke, compress, crucify, depress, drown, extinguish, flow, gulp, gulp down, hold down, keep down, keep in, keep under, outtalk, overbear, overtake, pocket, push down, put down, quash, quell, quench, repress, set in, settle, settle in, silence, smother, smother up, squash, squelch, stamp, stifle, strangle, subdue, submerge, suppress, swallow, throttle back, throttle down, weigh, weigh down, whelm, whip), baskı altında tutmak (coerce, concuss, press smb. close, repress), alıkoymak (check, constrain, deforce, delay, detain, disable, hinder, hold, hold up, incapacitate, intercept, keep, keep from, keep in, preclude, retain, retard, stay, stick, stop, withhold). (various references)

Turkmen 

saklanmak (restrain one's self). (various references)

Ukrainian

стримувати (abate, bound, bridle, chasten, check, coerce, constrain, contain, control, curb, deter, dominate, hold in, inhibit, moderate, pocket, rein, stay, stop, suppress, swaddle, swallow, temper), вгамовувати, обмежувати (abridge, astrict, bail, bound, circumscribe, confine, cramp, enclose, limit, narrow, pinch on, restrict, stint, straiten, terminate), позбавляти волі (imprison). (various references)

castigo, coerceo, coercere, coercitus, coercui, cohibebant, cohibebo, cohibeo, cohibere, cohibita, compescor, confutare, conpescens, conpescuit, constricti, constringantur, constringatur, constringe, constringes, constringit, constringitur, constringo constrixi constrictum, constringuntur, constrinxerant, constrinxerit, contineo, freno, infreno, inhibere, mansuetabatur, modificare, prohibe, prohibeas, prohibeatis, prohibebam, prohibebant, prohibebantur, prohibebat, prohibebis, prohibebit, prohibebo, prohibente, prohibentem, prohibentes, prohibentium, prohibentur, prohibeo, prohibere, prohiberent, prohiberentur, prohibet, prohibita, prohibitae, prohibiti, prohibitio, prohibitione, prohibitique, prohibitus, prohibueritis, prohibuero, prohibuerunt, prohibui, prohibuimus, prohibuisti, prohibuit, refrenantem, restringere, retento, retentum, retine, retineas, retinebit, retinens, retinent, retinentes, retineo, retinere, retines, retinet, retinete, retinetis, retinuerit, retinueritis, retinuit, sedare, sedasset, sedaverunt, sedavit, sedem, sedemus, sedent, sedere, sederis, sedes, sedet, sedetis, sedetur, vinci, vinciantur, vinciebatur, vincientes, vincimini, vinciri, vincit, vincitur, vincta, vincti, vinctis, vinctorum, vinctos, vinctum, vinctus, vinxerunt, vinxit, vinxitque. (various references)

refraigner. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "restrain": restrainable, restrained, restrainedly, restrainer, restrainers, restraining, restrains, restraint, restraints. (additional references)

Words containing "restrain": unrestrained, unrestrainedly, unrestrainedness, unrestrainednesses, unrestraint, unrestraints. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Restrain" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cestrian, destrain, eretrian, estrain, rastron, reattain, resfrain, resrain, restain, restane, restraind, risoria, rostralis, Trestrail, tristran. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: retrains, strainer, terrains, trainers.

-1 letter: anestri, antsier, artsier, errants, nastier, ranters, ratines, retains, retinas, retrain, retsina, sierran, stainer, stearin, tarries, tarsier, terrain, trainer.

-2 letters: airers, airest, antres, arisen, arrest, arsine, artier, astern, errant, estrin, inerts, insert, instar, inters, irater, niters, nitres, raiser, ranter, rarest, raster, raters, ratine, retain, retina, rinser, santir, satire, sierra, sinter, snarer, starer, sterna.

+1 letter: arresting, instarred, pretrains, restrains, restraint, retainers, retirants, serrating, serration, strainers, ternaries, terrapins, transpire, veratrins.

+2 letters: contraries, distrainer, entrainers, errantries, garnitures, interlards, ironmaster, irredentas, irridentas, narratives, overstrain, overtrains, pretorians, rainforest, rainwaters, registrant, restarting, restrained, restrainer, restraints, retransmit, ringmaster, serrations, tarriances, transcribe, transpired, transpires, traversing, treasuring, tristearin, truantries, veratrines, warranties.

+3 letters: aberrations, antitruster, arrestingly, brainteaser, carpentries, catarrhines, denigrators, distrainers, drivetrains, fraternizes, freemartins, garnierites, heartstring, hibernators, integrators, intergrades, intergrafts, interlayers, interparish, interstrain, interstrand, interurbans, ironmasters, itineraries, natriureses, natriuresis, ordinariest, overstrains, partnership, parturients, perorations, praetorians, printmakers, quarterings, rainforests, rearresting, reasserting, reassertion, reassorting, recreations, refractions, registrants, remastering, reparations, reservation, respiration, restoration, restrainers, restraining, retractions, retransmits, ringmasters, ringstraked, springwater, strangering, stranguries, streamliner, terminators, trailerings, transceiver, transcribed, transcriber, transcribes, transferrin, transfigure, transmarine, transmitter, transpierce, travertines, tristearins, tyrannizers, unrestraint.