restraining
Keeping in check
Restraining means holding back or keeping under control.
A restraining order is a court directive prohibiting someone from approaching or contacting another person.
Restraining hands physically hold someone in place.
The word suggests active effort to limit movement, action, or influence: She put a restraining hand on his arm before he could speak.
Locking wrist restraints
- shacklesMetal bonds for prisoners
- manaclesWrist shackles for prisoners
- chainsLinked metal restraints
- cuffsSleeve or wrist bands
fetters · straps · restraints · bindings · tether · rope · cord · hobble
Limiting or restraining
- regulatingControlling by rules
- governingControlling with authority
- managingDirecting or controlling something
- discipliningAdministering corrective measures
moderating · policing · overseeing · supervising · checking · monitoring · enforcing · commanding
Limiting freedom of movement
- curtailingReducing in extent
- boundingMoving by leaps
- cappingSetting an upper limit
- containingHolding within limits
circumscribing · narrowing · reducing · inhibiting · hindering · impeding · blocking · barring
Subduing into unconsciousness
- subduingBringing under control
- quellingForcibly ending resistance
- stiflingOppressively hot and close
- smotheringDepriving of air
dampening · squelching · muffling · silencing · choking · throttling · tamping · holding back
handcuffs
Locking wrist restraints
cuffs · fetters · straps · restraints · bindings · tether · rope · cord · hobble · muzzle
curbing
Limiting or restraining
- regulatingControlling by rules
- governingControlling with authority
- managingDirecting or controlling something
disciplining · moderating · policing · overseeing · supervising · checking · monitoring · enforcing · commanding · directing
confining
Limiting freedom of movement
- curtailingReducing in extent
- boundingMoving by leaps
- cappingSetting an upper limit
containing · circumscribing · narrowing · reducing · inhibiting · hindering · impeding · blocking · barring · preventing
repressing
Subduing into unconsciousness
smothering · dampening · squelching · muffling · silencing · choking · throttling · tamping · holding back · keeping down
- self-controlself-control, willpower, composure, moderation, temperance
- leadershipleadership styles, leader, leadership skills, boss, leading
- acquiringobtaining, getting, grabbing, seizing, taking
- cutbackscutback, cutbacks, decrease, layoff, reduction
- Snacking Habitssnacking, nibbling, munching, crunching, grazing
- containingcontaining, enclosing, encasing, wrapping, enveloping
restrainingreleasing
Allowing to escape
freeing · letting go · liberating · unleashing · permitting
- restraining orderCourt-enforced avoidance mandate
- temporary restraining orderEmergency court-issued protection mandate