Restraining Synonyms and Antonyms

To close within bounds, limit or hold back from movement
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. restricting
  2. confining
  3. holding
  4. delimiting
  5. throttling
  6. keeping
  7. inhibiting
  8. curbing
  9. bounding
  10. circumscribing
  11. constraining
  12. limiting
  13. checking
  14. bridling
  15. trammelling
  16. braking
  17. bitting
Antonyms:
  1. releasing
  2. liberating
  3. freeing
To compel or deter by or as if by threats
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. intimidating
Synonyms:
(Adjective)
  1. restrictive
  2. coercive

Restraining Sentence Examples

  • Jackson would have no difficulty restraining Elisabeth.

  • No, a restraining order wouldn't stop him from finding me if he wanted to, and it might just make him mad enough to do something worse.

  • Successes were limited for the week with one found child, accidently trapped in a locked room of an empty house and one spousal abduction, in the face of a restraining order.

  • I think it's time to get that restraining order – before she does something.

  • The next week they got the restraining order, but as Carmen witnessed one day on her way home, it didn't stop Lori.

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