restrain

«restrain» in Mova's school dictionary: to hold them back or stop them from moving or doing… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (restrain, restrains, restrained, restraining)

meaning for a pupil

1) To restrain someone or something is to hold them back or stop them from moving or doing something, often by force. tree →

2) To restrain yourself is to stop yourself from doing something you want to do, like laughing or shouting. tree →

sense in the lessons

In safety: seat belts and car seats restrain children; dogs are restrained on leads. In stories characters restrain their anger or laughter. Phrases: «restrain yourself», «be restrained», «restrain a dog».

examples

• Keep your dog restrained on a lead in the park. tree →
• The seat belt restrained him when the car stopped suddenly. tree →
• I could hardly restrain my laughter. tree →
• Two players restrained the angry man. tree →
• Try to restrain yourself from eating all the cake. tree →
• Young children must be restrained in a proper car seat. tree →
• Then the Princess could restrain herself no longer, but ran forward and threw her arms round her husband. tree →

note

Noun: restraint. Adjective «restrained» also means calm and controlled. Do not confuse with «retrain» (train again) — restrain has an s.

In the corpora

• the fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained.
• That smote the peoples in wrath with an incessant stroke, that ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that none restrained.
• My son, walk not thou in the way with them, restrain thy foot from their path;
• And dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «restrain» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.