restrain
Example Sentences
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A day later, a judge had granted him a temporary restraining order that allowed him to play immediately.
However, at the moment, “any benefit from rising customer numbers and seat capacity growth is being severely restrained,” he adds.
He moved the restraining arm of the chair away and went to the desk.
From Literature
Governments, tech watchdogs and some of the people who build AI systems have called for global rules restraining use of the technology in warfare to avoid the various nightmare scenarios associated with automated killing machines.
But as you move inland and north — into Abruzzo, Emilia-Romagna, Lombardy, Friuli-Venezia Giulia — winter cooking becomes heartier, more restrained, and deeply tied to survival.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
