restrain

CEFRB2

/ɹɪˈstɹeɪn/

verb

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Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

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He was restrained by the straitjacket.
As with vicarious mismenstruation, the abnormal cessation only requires strict attention to the general health, with such measures to restrain hemorrhage as have already been indicated.
Squeeze the juice from 3 oranges and let the juice stand. Then pour it off, strain, and mix with the syrup. Restrain the liquid and chill in a mold.

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As with vicarious mismenstruation, the abnormal cessation only requires strict attention to the general health, with such measures to restrain hemorrhage as have already been indicated.
1875, Russell Thacher Trall, The Mother's Hygienic Hand-book, page 42
In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […] The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra-wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.
2013 May 17, George Monbiot, “Money just makes the rich suffer”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 23, page 19
Squeeze the juice from 3 oranges and let the juice stand. Then pour it off, strain, and mix with the syrup. Restrain the liquid and chill in a mold.
1998, Elena Molokhovets, Classic Russian Cooking, page 360

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From Middle English restreinen, from Old French restreindre, from Latin rēstringere (“fasten, tighten”).