• v.
    ⦿prevent (someone or something) from doing something
    lexical concept
  • security guards restrained the reporter from throwing another shoe

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechverb
ontolex:lexicalized senseenl:restrain
wn:interlingual indexili:in

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skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:labelrestrain