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Bind :: Bind (v. i.) To exert a binding or restraining influence.

Runaway :: Runaway (a.) Running away; fleeing from danger, duty, restraint, etc.; as, runaway soldiers; a runaway horse..

Rage :: Rage (n.) To ravage; to prevail without restraint, or with destruction or fatal effect; as, the plague raged in Cairo..

Suppressible :: Suppress (v. t.) To stop; to restrain; to arrest the discharges of; as, to suppress a diarrhea, or a hemorrhage..

Extravagant :: Extravagant (a.) Exceeding due bounds; wild; excessive; unrestrained; as, extravagant acts, wishes, praise, abuse..

Wanton :: Wanton (v. i.) To rove and ramble without restraint, rule, or limit; to revel; to play loosely; to frolic..

Control :: Control (n.) Power or authority to check or restrain; restraining or regulating influence; superintendence; government; as, children should be under parental control..

Impotent :: Impotent (a.) Wanting the power of self-restraint; incontrolled; ungovernable; violent.

Contain :: Contain (v. t.) To put constraint upon; to restrain; to confine; to keep within bounds.

Compesce :: Compesce (v. t.) To hold in check; to restrain.

Limit :: Limit (v. t.) That which terminates, circumscribes, restrains, or confines; the bound, border, or edge; the utmost extent; as, the limit of a walk, of a town, of a country; the limits of human knowledge or endeavor..

Abstentious :: Abstentious (a.) Characterized by abstinence; self-restraining.

Bulldoze :: Bulldoze (v. t.) To intimidate; to restrain or coerce by intimidation or violence; -- used originally of the intimidation of negro voters, in Louisiana..

Self-indulgence :: Self-indulgence (n.) Indulgence of one's appetites, desires, or inclinations; -- the opposite of self-restraint, and self-denial..

Quarantine :: Quarantine (n.) Specifically, the term, originally of forty days, during which a ship arriving in port, and suspected of being infected a malignant contagious disease, is obliged to forbear all intercourse with the shore; hence, such restraint or inhibition of intercourse; also, the place where infected or prohibited vessels are stationed..

Bound :: Bound (p. p. & a.) Restrained by a hand, rope, chain, fetters, or the like..

Duress :: Duress (n.) Hardship; constraint; pressure; imprisonment; restraint of liberty.

Unshackle :: Unshackle (v. t.) To loose from shackles or bonds; to set free from restraint; to unfetter.

Continency :: Continency (n.) Self-restraint; self-command.

Cohibition :: Cohibition (n.) Hindrance; restraint.

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