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Stress :: Stress (n.) Pressure, strain; -- used chiefly of immaterial things; except in mechanics; hence, urgency; importance; weight; significance..

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

Head :: Head (v. t.) To go in front of; to get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose; hence, to check or restrain; as, to head a drove of cattle; to head a person; the wind heads a ship..

Wrench :: Wrench (v. t.) An instrument, often a simple bar or lever with jaws or an angular orifice either at the end or between the ends, for exerting a twisting strain, as in turning bolts, nuts, screw taps, etc.; a screw key. Many wrenches have adjustable jaws for grasping nuts, etc., of different sizes..

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

Sile :: Sile (v. t.) To strain, as fresh milk..

Loose :: Loose (n.) Freedom from restraint.

Monotonist :: Monotonist (n.) One who talks in the same strain or on the same subject until weariness is produced.

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

Make :: Make (v. t.) To require; to constrain; to compel; to force; to cause; to occasion; -- followed by a noun or pronoun and infinitive.

Escape :: Escape (n.) That which escapes attention or restraint; a mistake; an oversight; also, transgression..

Abandon :: Abandon (n.) A complete giving up to natural impulses; freedom from artificial constraint; careless freedom or ease.

Prison :: Prison (n.) A place where persons are confined, or restrained of personal liberty; hence, a place or state o/ confinement, restraint, or safe custody..

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

Indulge :: Indulge (v. i.) To indulge one's self; to gratify one's tastes or desires; esp., to give one's self up (to); to practice a forbidden or questionable act without restraint; -- followed by in, but formerly, also, by to..

Rescue :: Rescue (v.) The forcible retaking, or taking away, against law, of things lawfully distrained..

Restrainer :: Restrainer (n.) One who, or that which, restrains..

Stretch :: Stretch (n.) Act of stretching, or state of being stretched; reach; effort; struggle; strain; as, a stretch of the limbs; a stretch of the imagination..

Broken :: Broken (v. t.) Fractured; cracked; disunited; sundered; strained; apart; as, a broken reed; broken friendship..

Sotto Voce :: Sotto voce () With a restrained voice or moderate force; in an undertone.

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