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restraint

the of act controlling by restraining someone or something; "the unlawful restraint of trade"

a device that retards something's motion; "the car did not have proper restraints fitted"

discipline in personal and social activities; "he was a model of polite restraint"; "she never lost control of herself"

a rule or condition that limits freedom; "legal restraints"; "restraints imposed on imports"

Synonyms:

• Atticism,
• Oregon boat,
• abnegation,
• absolutism,
• abstinence,
• aloofness,
• aplomb,
• appropriateness,
• arrest,
• arrestation,
• arrestment,
• assurance,
• backwardness,
• balance,
• ban,
• bashfulness,
• bilbo,
• blankness,
• block,
• blockage,
• blocking,
• bond,
• bond service,
• bondage,
• bonds,
• bounds,
• bracelets,
• bridle,
• caging,
• calm,
• calmness,
• camisole,
• captivity,
• censorship,
• chains,
• chasteness,
• chastity,
• check,
• chilliness,
• circumscription,
• clarity,
• classicalism,
• classicism,
• clearness,
• clogging,
• closing up,
• closure,
• coaction,
• coldness,
• collar,
• comeliness,
• composure,
• compulsion,
• compulsiveness,
• confidence,
• confinement,
• conservatism,
• constraint,
• constriction,
• continence,
• control,
• cool,
• coolness,
• correctness,
• cramp,
• cuffs,
• curb,
• curtailment,
• debt slavery,
• delay,
• delimitation,
• deprivation of freedom,
• detachment,
• detainment,
• detention,
• dignity,
• directness,
• discipline,
• discreetness,
• discretion,
• discrimination,
• disenfranchisement,
• disfranchisement,
• dispassion,
• distance,
• distinction,
• domination,
• ease,
• elegance,
• elegancy,
• embargo,
• enforcement,
• enslavement,
• enthrallment,
• equability,
• equanimity,
• equilibrium,
• evenness,
• expressionlessness,
• felicitousness,
• felicity,
• fetter,
• fetters,
• feudalism,
• feudality,
• finish,
• fittingness,
• fixation,
• flow,
• flowing periods,
• fluency,
• foot-dragging,
• forbearance,
• forcing,
• frigidity,
• frostiness,
• frugality,
• gag,
• gentleness,
• golden mean,
• good taste,
• grace,
• gracefulness,
• gracility,
• guardedness,
• gyves,
• halter,
• hamper,
• hampering,
• handcuffs,
• happy medium,
• helotism,
• helotry,
• hindering,
• hindrance,
• hobbles,
• holdback,
• holdup,
• hopples,
• iciness,
• impartiality,
• impassiveness,
• impassivity,
• impediment,
• impersonality,
• impoundment,
• inaccessibility,
• indentureship,
• independence,
• inevitability,
• inhibition,
• interdict,
• interdiction,
• interference,
• interruption,
• introversion,
• irons,
• irresistibility,
• judiciousness,
• juste-milieu,
• leading strings,
• leash,
• lenity,
• let,
• level head,
• levelheadedness,
• limit,
• limitation,
• limpidity,
• lockup,
• lucidity,
• manacle,
• meden agan,
• middle way,
• mildness,
• moderateness,
• moderation,
• moderationism,
• modesty,
• muzzle,
• naturalness,
• neatness,
• necessity,
• negativism,
• neutrality,
• nonviolence,
• nothing in excess,
• nuisance value,
• obligation,
• obligement,
• obstruction,
• obstructionism,
• occlusion,
• opposition,
• pacifism,
• pellucidity,
• penning,
• peonage,
• perspicuity,
• pillory,
• plainness,
• poise,
• polish,
• possession,
• presence of mind,
• propriety,
• proscription,
• prudence,
• psychological block,
• purity,
• quietness,
• refinement,
• rein,
• reins,
• remoteness,
• renouncement,
• renunciation,
• repose,
• repression,
• reserve,
• reservedness,
• resistance,
• restrainedness,
• restraints,
• restriction,
• retardation,
• retardment,
• reticence,
• reticency,
• retirement,
• retiring disposition,
• seemliness,
• self-abnegation,
• self-assurance,
• self-command,
• self-confidence,
• self-conquest,
• self-control,
• self-denial,
• self-discipline,
• self-government,
• self-mastery,
• self-possession,
• self-restraint,
• serenity,
• serfdom,
• serfhood,
• servility,
• servitude,
• setback,
• shackle,
• shackles,
• simplicity,
• slavery,
• smoothness,
• soberness,
• sobriety,
• sophrosyne,
• squeeze,
• stability,
• standoffishness,
• steadiness,
• stocks,
• straightforwardness,
• straightjacket,
• strait-waistcoat,
• straitjacket,
• stranglehold,
• stricture,
• subduedness,
• subjection,
• subjugation,
• suppression,
• taboo,
• taste,
• tastefulness,
• temperance,
• temperateness,
• terseness,
• tether,
• thrall,
• thralldom,
• trammel,
• trammels,
• tranquillity,
• tyranny,
• unaffability,
• unaffectedness,
• unapproachability,
• uncongeniality,
• undemonstrativeness,
• understatement,
• unexcessiveness,
• unexpansiveness,
• unextravagance,
• unextremeness,
• unobtrusiveness,
• vassalage,
• via media,
• villenage,
• well-regulated mind,
• withdrawal,
• withdrawnness,
• yoke