restraining

ADJECTIVE

controlling

Synonyms

STRONG

constraining forbidding governing prohibiting

WEAK

coercive restrictive

Example Sentences

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To these latter, it is capable of mistraining as nothing else can.

From Latter-Day Pamphlets by Carlyle, Thomas