• v.
    ⦿prevent the action or expression of
    lexical concept
  • hold back your anger
  • keep your cool
  • she struggled to restrain her impatience at the delays

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechverb
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:hold back
  2. enl:keep
  3. enl:keep back
  4. enl:restrain
wn:interlingual indexili:i33848

Other

skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:label
  • hold backkeepkeep backrestrain
  • hold backkeep backrestrain