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necessitate
To make (something) necessary or unavoidable; involve or imply as a necessary condition, outcome, etc.
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  1. To make (something) necessary or unavoidable; involve or imply as a necessary condition, outcome, etc.
  2. (Now Rare) To compel; require; force
compel
To exert a strong, irresistible force on; sway:
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  1. To exert a strong, irresistible force on; sway:
  2. To force (a person) to do something; drive or constrain:
  3. To necessitate or require, as by force of circumstance; demand:
hold back
(Idiomatic) to delay, especially in school
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  1. (Idiomatic) to delay, especially in school
  2. (Idiomatic) to contain; stop
stifle
To interrupt or cut off (the voice, for example).
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  1. To interrupt or cut off (the voice, for example).
  2. To suppress or repress; hold back; check, stop, inhibit, etc.
  3. To kill by preventing respiration; smother or suffocate.
coerce
To bring about or gain by pressure, threat, or force:
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  1. To bring about or gain by pressure, threat, or force:
  2. To bring about by using force; enforce
  3. To pressure, intimidate, or force (someone) into doing something.
compel
To force or constrain, as to do something
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  1. To force or constrain, as to do something
  2. To force (a person) to do something; drive or constrain:
  3. To get or bring about by force
force
To get or take by force; wrest; extort
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  1. To get or take by force; wrest; extort
  2. (Obs.) To give or add force to
  3. (--- Bridge) To make a bid that requires (one's partner) to bid in response
make
To rise or accumulate:
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  1. To rise or accumulate:
  2. To achieve, produce, or attain:
  3. To draw up and execute in a suitable form:
obligate
To commit (money, for example) in order to fulfill an obligation.
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  1. To commit (money, for example) in order to fulfill an obligation.
  2. Capable of existing only in a particular environment or by assuming a particular role. An obligate aerobe, such as certain bacteria, can live only in the presence of oxygen. An obligate parasite cannot survive independently of its host.
  3. To cause to be grateful or indebted; oblige:
oblige
To bind someone by performing a service for that person.
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  1. To bind someone by performing a service for that person.
  2. To compel or require (someone) to do something, as by circumstance or legality:
  3. To make indebted or grateful:
pressure
To exert pressure, or compelling influence, on
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  1. To exert pressure, or compelling influence, on
  2. The force per unit area that one region of a gas, liquid, or solid exerts on another. Pressure is usually measured in Pascal units, atmospheres, or pounds per square inch. &diamf3; A substance is said to have negative pressure if some other substance exerts more force per unit area on it than vice versa. Its value is simply the negative of the pressure exerted by the other substance.
  3. To force or try to force, as by influence or persuasion:
bit
To put a bit into the mouth of (a horse)
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  1. To put a bit into the mouth of (a horse)
  2. To check or curb
  3. To check or control with or as if with a bit.
brake
To break up (flax, clods of earth, etc.) into smaller pieces
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  1. To break up (flax, clods of earth, etc.) into smaller pieces
  2. To operate or apply a brake.
  3. To slow down or stop with or as with a brake
bridle
To pull one's head back quickly with the chin drawn in as an expression of anger, scorn, pride, etc.
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  1. To pull one's head back quickly with the chin drawn in as an expression of anger, scorn, pride, etc.
  2. To be angry or resentful; take offense:
  3. To control or restrain:
curb
To lead (a dog being walked) to the curb or some other place where it may pass its waste matter
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  1. To lead (a dog being walked) to the curb or some other place where it may pass its waste matter
  2. To prevent (a person or group) from doing something or acting in a certain way.
  3. To check, restrain, or control (an impulse or activity, for example); rein in.
hold
To take and keep with the hands or arms, or by other means; grasp; clutch; seize
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  1. To take and keep with the hands or arms, or by other means; grasp; clutch; seize
  2. To keep under obligation; bind
  3. To get and keep control of; keep from relaxing or lapsing
hold back
(Idiomatic) to delay, especially in school
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  1. (Idiomatic) to delay, especially in school
  2. (Idiomatic) to act with reserve; to contain one's full measure or power
hold down
(Idiomatic) To continue, to hold and to manage well.
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  1. (Idiomatic) To continue, to hold and to manage well.
  2. (Idiomatic) To restrain; to check.
inhibit
To hold back; restrain:
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  1. To hold back; restrain:
  2. To decrease, limit, or block the action or function of something in the body, as an enzyme or organ.
  3. To hold back or keep from some action, feeling, etc.; check or repress
keep
To continue to have or hold; not lose or give up
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  1. To continue to have or hold; not lose or give up
  2. To save; reserve:
  3. To put customarily; store:
keep back
To restrict or restrain
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  1. To restrict or restrain
  2. To prevent (a pupil) to advance in a course
  3. To hold back, refuse to give or share
in
In a particular relationship:
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  1. In a particular relationship:
  2. (Sports) So as to score, as by crossing home plate in baseball:
  3. At or inside one's home, office, etc.
restrain
To prevent (a person or group) from doing something or acting in a certain way:
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  1. To prevent (a person or group) from doing something or acting in a certain way:
  2. To hold back or keep in check; control:
  3. To keep under control
constrict
To restrict the scope or freedom of; cramp:
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  1. To restrict the scope or freedom of; cramp:
  2. To hold in; limit; restrict
  3. To become constricted.
cramp
To affect with or experience a cramp or cramps.
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  1. To affect with or experience a cramp or cramps.
  2. To cause a cramp or cramps in
  3. To affect with or as if with a cramp.
inhibit
To decrease, limit, or block the action or function of something in the body, as an enzyme or organ.
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  1. To decrease, limit, or block the action or function of something in the body, as an enzyme or organ.
  2. (--- Chemistry) To prevent or decrease the rate of (a reaction).
  3. (--- Biology) To decrease, limit, or block the action or function of (an enzyme or organ, for example).
Find another word for constrain. In this page you can discover 37 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for constrain, like: necessitate, compel, hold back, stifle, force, restrain, coerce, compel, force, make and obligate.

Sentence Examples

  • Loose fitting sleepwear is the most comfortable since it does not bind or constrain.

  • 64) that to constrain or coerce a personal being is to treat him as an inanimate agent; for such a principle is quite inapplicable to cases of mere terrorism, whilst it may be doubted if it even renders the sense of the savage magician's typical notion of his modus operandi, viz.

  • The ~ force required to constrain the weight a to move in a circle, that is the de viating force, produces an equal and -~ opposite reaction on the shaft, whose X amount F is equal to the centrifugal force Wa2 rig Ib, where r is the radius of the mass centre of the weight, and - a is its angular velocity in radians per second.

  • Is, the Jews assail Paul because he has trusted and appealed to the name of a Messiah whom they regard as an overthrower of the law; for Paul believed that God had invested Jesus with a name above all names, potent to constrain and overcome all lesser powers, good or evil, in heaven or earth or under earth.

  • On the other hand, if you are always warm and kicking off your covers, look for loose fitting, lightweight cotton nighties that do not constrain or bind.

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