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Main Entry:
restraining
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*
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
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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