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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/restrain/#m1)

2) To restrain yourself is to stop yourself from doing something you want to do, like laughing or shouting. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/restrain/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/restrain/#x1)
- The seat belt restrained him when the car stopped suddenly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/restrain/#x2)
- I could hardly restrain my laughter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/restrain/#x3)
- Two players restrained the angry man. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/restrain/#x4)
- Try to restrain yourself from eating all the cake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/restrain/#x5)
- Young children must be restrained in a proper car seat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/restrain/#x6)
- Then the Princess could restrain herself no longer, but ran forward and threw her arms round her husband. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/restrain/#x7)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.197/)
- [That smote the peoples in wrath with an incessant stroke, that ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that none restrained.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.304/)
- [My son, walk not thou in the way with them, restrain thy foot from their path;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.14/)
- [And dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.373/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «restrain» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/restrain/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.