Restraint
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[1913 Webster]  restraint n 1: the act of controlling by restraining someone or something; "the unlawful restraint of trade" 2: discipline in personal and social activities; "he was a model of polite restraint"; "she never lost control of herself" [syn: restraint, control] [ant: unrestraint] 3: the state of being physically constrained; "dogs should be kept under restraint" [syn: constraint, restraint] 4: a rule or condition that limits freedom; "legal restraints"; "restraints imposed on imports" 5: lack of ornamentation; "the room was simply decorated with great restraint" [syn: chasteness, restraint, simplicity, simpleness] 6: a device that retards something's motion; "the car did not have proper restraints fitted" [syn: restraint, constraint]  restraint [ristreint] Hemmnis; Zurückhaltung  restraint bezárás fogvatartás kikötés korlátozottság korlátozás megfékezés megszorítás mérséklet tartózkodás tilalom önuralom  restraint [ristreint] zelfbeheersing; zelfbestuur  restraint [ristreint] självbehärskning  restraint Beschränkung f (Maßnahme) restraint Hemmnis n restraint Zurückhaltung f  304 Moby Thesaurus words for "restraint": Atticism, Oregon boat, abnegation, absolutism, abstinence, aloofness, aplomb, appropriateness, arrest, arrestation, arrestment, assurance, backwardness, balance, ban, bashfulness, bilbo, blankness, block, blockage, blocking, bond, bond service, bondage, bonds, bounds, bracelets, bridle, caging, calm, calmness, camisole, captivity, censorship, chains, chasteness, chastity, check, chilliness, circumscription, clarity, classicalism, classicism, clearness, clogging, closing up, closure, coaction, coldness, collar, comeliness, composure, compulsion, compulsiveness, confidence, confinement, conservatism, constraint, constriction, continence, control, cool, coolness, correctness, cramp, cuffs, curb, curtailment, debt slavery, delay, delimitation, deprivation of freedom, detachment, detainment, detention, dignity, directness, discipline, discreetness, discretion, discrimination, disenfranchisement, disfranchisement, dispassion, distance, distinction, domination, ease, elegance, elegancy, embargo, enforcement, enslavement, enthrallment, equability, equanimity, equilibrium, evenness, expressionlessness, felicitousness, felicity, fetter, fetters, feudalism, feudality, finish, fittingness, fixation, flow, flowing periods, fluency, foot-dragging, forbearance, forcing, frigidity, frostiness, frugality, gag, gentleness, golden mean, good taste, grace, gracefulness, gracility, guardedness, gyves, halter, hamper, hampering, handcuffs, happy medium, helotism, helotry, hindering, hindrance, hobbles, holdback, holdup, hopples, iciness, impartiality, impassiveness, impassivity, impediment, impersonality, impoundment, inaccessibility, indentureship, independence, inevitability, inhibition, interdict, interdiction, interference, interruption, introversion, irons, irresistibility, judiciousness, juste-milieu, leading strings, leash, lenity, let, level head, levelheadedness, limit, limitation, limpidity, lockup, lucidity, manacle, meden agan, middle way, mildness, moderateness, moderation, moderationism, modesty, muzzle, naturalness, neatness, necessity, negativism, neutrality, nonviolence, nothing in excess, nuisance value, obligation, obligement, obstruction, obstructionism, occlusion, opposition, pacifism, pellucidity, penning, peonage, perspicuity, pillory, plainness, poise, polish, possession, presence of mind, propriety, proscription, prudence, psychological block, purity, quietness, refinement, rein, reins, remoteness, renouncement, renunciation, repose, repression, reserve, reservedness, resistance, restrainedness, restraints, restriction, retardation, retardment, reticence, reticency, retirement, retiring disposition, seemliness, self-abnegation, self-assurance, self-command, self-confidence, self-conquest, self-control, self-denial, self-discipline, self-government, self-mastery, self-possession, self-restraint, serenity, serfdom, serfhood, servility, servitude, setback, shackle, shackles, simplicity, slavery, smoothness, soberness, sobriety, sophrosyne, squeeze, stability, standoffishness, steadiness, stocks, straightforwardness, straightjacket, strait-waistcoat, straitjacket, stranglehold, stricture, subduedness, subjection, subjugation, suppression, taboo, taste, tastefulness, temperance, temperateness, terseness, tether, thrall, thralldom, trammel, trammels, tranquillity, tyranny, unaffability, unaffectedness, unapproachability, uncongeniality, undemonstrativeness, understatement, unexcessiveness, unexpansiveness, unextravagance, unextremeness, unobtrusiveness, vassalage, via media, villenage, well-regulated mind, withdrawal, withdrawnness, yoke Restraint related |
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