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restraining

verbnounattested in dialogue

The act by which someone or something is restrained.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of restrainpresent participle and gerund of restrain

noun

  1. 1

    The act by which someone or something is restrained.

    She had the privilege of a soul beyond our minor rules and restrainings to speak her wishes to the true wife of a mock husband—no husband; less a husband than this shadow of a woman a wife, she said; […]

Forms

plural
restrainings
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Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).