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| Main Entry: |
restraining
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | controlling |
| Synonyms: | coercive, constraining, forbidding, governing, prohibiting, restrictive |
| Main Entry: | arrest |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | taking into custody |
| Synonyms: | accommodation, apprehension, appropriation, bag*, booby trap, bust, captivity, capture, collar, commitment, confinement, constraint, crimp, detention, drop*, fall*, gaff, glom, grab*, heat*, hook*, imprisonment, incarceration, jailing, mitt, nab, nail, nick, nip, pick up*, pickle, pinch*, preventive custody, protective custody, pull in, pull*, restraining, run in, sequestering, snare, sweep* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | arrest |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | slowing or stopping |
| Synonyms: | blockage, cessation, check, checking, delay, end, halt, hindrance, inhibition, interruption, obstruction, prevention, restraining, restraint, stalling, stay, staying, stoppage, suppression, suspension |
| Antonyms: | activation, encouragement, letting go, release |
| Main Entry: | binding |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | confining |
| Synonyms: | attached, enslaved, fastened, indentured, limiting, restraining, tied, tying |
| Antonyms: | alterable, breakable, revocable, unbinding, unconfining, unnecessary |
| Main Entry: | prohibitive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | restrictive; beyond one's |
| Synonyms: | excessive, exorbitant, expensive, extortionate, financial means conditional, forbidding, high-priced, limiting, preposterous, preventing, prohibiting, proscriptive, repressive, restraining, sky-high, steep*, suppressive |
| Antonyms: | reasonable, unlimited, unrestrictive |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | confining |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | restricting |
| Synonyms: | bounding, detaining, enclosing, imprisoning, restraining |
| Main Entry: | governing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | commanding |
| Synonyms: | absolute, administrative, ascendant, authoritative, conducting, controlling, determining, directing, dominant, dominating, executive, gubernatorial, guiding, influential, magisterial, mastering, ordering, overseeing, presidential, regulatory, restraining, ruling, superintending, supervisory, supreme |
| Antonyms: | powerless, subordinate, tributary |
| Main Entry: | retaining |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | maintaining |
| Synonyms: | accommodating, arresting, cherishing, commemorating, confining, embracing, employing, engaging, having, hiring, holding, holding back, keeping, owning, possessing, preserving, remembering, reserving, restraining, saving, securing, seizing, suppressing, sustaining, taking, treasuring, withholding, working |
| Main Entry: | tying |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | binding |
| Synonyms: | confining, restraining, restricting, shackling |
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