restrain
ree strayn
- v keep under control; keep in check
- v place limits on (extent or access)
- v to close within bounds, limit or hold back from movement
- v hold back
- v to compel or deter by or as if by threats
- Mediation is further complicated by the limited leverage available to Washington to restrain both sides from marching into what, the best intentions notwithstanding, could turn out .
- Here Ike echoed a theme he had voiced in his State of the Union address last January: labor and business, as well as government, should restrain their demands.
- The one party he refused to legalize was the Communistbut he did nothing to restrain the Communist clique behind gullible Army Colonel Jacobo Arbenz, who succeeded him as .