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Curb :: Curb (n.) That which curbs, restrains, or subdues; a check or hindrance; esp., a chain or strap attached to the upper part of the branches of a bit, and capable of being drawn tightly against the lower jaw of the horse..

Yoke :: Yoke (v. t.) To enslave; to bring into bondage; to restrain; to confine.

Stop :: Stop (v. t.) To hinder from acting or moving; to prevent the effect or efficiency of; to cause to cease; to repress; to restrain; to suppress; to interrupt; to suspend; as, to stop the execution of a decree, the progress of vice, the approaches of old age or infirmity..

Set :: Set (n.) Permanent change of figure in consequence of excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending, twisting, etc.; as, the set of a spring..

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

Bind :: Bind (v. t.) Fig.: To oblige, restrain, or hold, by authority, law, duty, promise, vow, affection, or other moral tie; as, to bind the conscience; to bind by kindness; bound by affection; commerce binds nations to each other..

Tender :: Tender (superl.) Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic; as, tender expressions; tender expostulations; a tender strain..

Frank :: Frank (n.) Unrestrained; loose; licentious; -- used in a bad sense.

Strain :: Strain (a.) To urge with importunity; to press; as, to strain a petition or invitation..

Strain :: Strain (a.) To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in the matter of intent or meaning; as, to strain the law in order to convict an accused person..

Compel :: Compel (v. t.) To drive or urge with force, or irresistibly; to force; to constrain; to oblige; to necessitate, either by physical or moral force..

Wrench :: Wrench (n.) To strain; to sprain; hence, to distort; to pervert..

Expatiate :: Expatiate (v. i.) To range at large, or without restraint..

Filter :: Filter (n.) Any porous substance, as cloth, paper, sand, or charcoal, through which water or other liquid may passed to cleanse it from the solid or impure matter held in suspension; a chamber or device containing such substance; a strainer; also, a similar device for purifying air..

Revoke :: Revoke (v. t.) To hold back; to repress; to restrain.

Hold :: Hold (n. i.) To restrain one's self; to refrain.

Unmoralized :: Unmoralized (a.) Not restrained or tutored by morality.

Restrainable :: Restrainable (a.) Capable of being restrained; controllable.

Unconstraint :: Unconstraint (n.) Freedom from constraint; ease.

Straining :: Strainer (n.) That through which any liquid is passed for purification or to separate it from solid matter; anything, as a screen or a cloth, used to strain a liquid; a device of the character of a sieve or of a filter; specifically, an openwork or perforated screen, as for the end of the suction pipe of a pump, to prevent large solid bodies from entering with a liquid..

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