ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Restraining

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech verb

Quick meaning: Restraining is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of restrain.

Meaning

present participle and gerund of restrain.

More Meanings

  1. The act by which someone or something is restrained.

Example Sentences

She had the privilege of a soul beyond our minor rules and restrainings to speak her wishes to the true wife of a mock husband—no husband; less a husband than this shadow of a woman a wife, she said; […]

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include restrict, limit, confine, hold, cumber, encumber.

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