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Heft :: Heft (n.) The act or effort of heaving/ violent strain or exertion.

Restrain :: Restrain (v. t.) To draw back again; to hold back from acting, proceeding, or advancing, either by physical or moral force, or by any interposing obstacle; to repress or suppress; to keep down; to curb..

Start :: Start (v. i.) To become somewhat displaced or loosened; as, a rivet or a seam may start under strain or pressure..

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

Restrict :: Restrict (v. t.) To restrain within bounds; to limit; to confine; as, to restrict worlds to a particular meaning; to restrict a patient to a certain diet..

Monologue :: Monologue (n.) A speech uttered by a person alone; soliloquy; also, talk or discourse in company, in the strain of a soliloquy; as, an account in monologue..

Contain :: Contain (v. i.) To restrain desire; to live in continence or chastity.

Ahead :: Ahead (adv.) Headlong; without restraint.

Stintedness :: Stintance (n.) Restraint; stoppage.

Miscreant :: Miscreant (n.) One not restrained by Christian principles; an unscrupulous villain; a while wretch.

Distrain :: Distrain (v. t.) To rend; to tear.

Silence :: Silence (v. t.) To restrain from the exercise of any function, privilege of instruction, or the like, especially from the act of preaching; as, to silence a minister of the gospel..

Tension :: Tension (a.) The act of stretching or straining; the state of being stretched or strained to stiffness; the state of being bent strained; as, the tension of the muscles, tension of the larynx..

Bound :: Bound (p. p. & a.) Under legal or moral restraint or obligation.

Restrain :: Restrain (v. t.) To hinder from unlimited enjoiment; to abridge.

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

Unequal :: Unequal (a.) Not adequate or sufficient; inferior; as, the man was unequal to the emergency; the timber was unequal to the sudden strain..

Manacle :: Manacle (v. t.) To put handcuffs or other fastening upon, for confining the hands; to shackle; to confine; to restrain from the use of the limbs or natural powers..

Duress :: Duress (n.) The state of compulsion or necessity in which a person is influenced, whether by the unlawful restrain of his liberty or by actual or threatened physical violence, to incur a civil liability or to commit an offense..

Obedient :: Obedient (a.) Subject in will or act to authority; willing to obey; submissive to restraint, control, or command..

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