📚 Restrain, verb. 🔉 /rɪˈstreɪn/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Prevent (someone or something) from doing something; keep under control or within limits. ❗️ Examples: 1. The need to restrain public expenditure. 2. He had to be restrained from walking out. 3. Younger children may strike their older siblings, while older siblings are restrained from hitting back. 4. They say the state banks were restrained from inflating to excess by the regular requirement that they pay their balances to the federal branch offices in hard money. 5. Headcount freezes mean they are restrained from filling existing vacancies or creating new ones. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic