Restrain is valid Scrabble Word

Is restrain a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is restrain valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

8 letters word
8 points in Scrabble
9 points in WWF

Definitions for RESTRAIN in dictionary:

VERB:

to hold back
prevent (someone or something) from doing something; keep under control or within limits
control (a strong urge or emotion)
deprive (someone) of freedom of movement or personal liberty
(of a seat belt) hold (a person or part of their body) down and back while in a vehicle seat
hold (someone) back from action
To draw back again; to hold back from acting, proceeding, or advancing, either by physical or moral force, or by any interposing obstacle; to repress or suppress; to keep down; to curb.
To draw back toghtly, as a rein.
To hinder from unlimited enjoiment; to abridge.
To limit; to confine; to restrict.

To withhold; to forbear.
keep under control; keep in check
place limits on (extent or access)
to close within bounds, limit or hold back from movement
to compel or deter by or as if by threats

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to hold back from action

Words related to RESTRAIN

restrainable14 restrained11 restraining12 restrains9

Words that contain RESTRAIN

restrains9 restraint9 restrained11 restrainer10 restraints10 restrainers11 restraining12 unrestraint11 restrainable14 restrainedly16 restrainings13 unrestrained13 unrestraints12 irrestrainable16 restrainedness15 unrestrainable16 unrestrainedly18 unrestrainednes16 unrestrainedness17 unrestrainednesses19

How to use RESTRAIN in a sentence

Graham held out his hand as if to restrain him, then nodded.
If we expect one agent to restrain or control another, their interests must, at least in some degree, be antagonistic.
It was forced to restrain its own citizens, and to enter into quasi-diplomatic relations with its neighbors.
Barbou, for one, made a still more decided effort to turn back, for, being a bachelor, he had no one to restrain him.
With a movement she did not try to restrain Lloyd put both her hands over his poor, shapeless wrists.
A gift hath grace in the sight of all the living, and restrain not grace from the dead.
He had spent the last few days in trying, without too much giving Hilary away, to restrain Leslie from following his advice.
Unfortunately, however, the sides of the pool were very steep, and the ass of the Cogia, on seeing the water, not being able to restrain himself, ran forward to the pool.
It should not be the studied purpose to enrich the few at the expense of the many, to restrain this man and give that one the largest possible immunity.
Blunt old Knockbrex, for one, wrote to his old minister to restrain somewhat his ecstasy.

A dozen times he waved it aside and went into debt rather than restrain himself.
No scruples would restrain him if he thought the game was a safe quarry.
The officer replied that it certainly would, upon hearing which he could not restrain himself, became quite overwhelmed with anger, and struck the guard who reported him.
Count Mansfeld was made commander-in-chief, but was totally unable to restrain the licentious soldiery.
Thus it was supposed that the two great sectional interests would be enabled to restrain each other within the limits of purposes and action beneficial to both.
The others, unable to restrain their excitement, broke in with interruptions.
I will not restrain you in any way, and I have never done so.
I confess it was next to an impossibility for any men in the world to restrain their curiosity of knowing what had happened, or their concern for the safety of the men.
So exasperated were our men, that it was impossible for their officers to restrain them, and many were killed after orders were given to grant quarter.
It was impossible for me now to restrain my young comrade from entering into the Swedish service, and indeed everything was so inviting that I could not blame him.
Nature, therefore, would presently work the more prevalent way, if there were nothing but this inferior bent of herself to restrain her.
Ah! Prince! What guard could restrain her? HOLOFERNES.
It is easy enough to restrain our wrath when the other fellow is the bigger.
Here Anne parted with her uncle, who promised an early letter, though she could hardly restrain a shudder at the thought of the tidings that it might contain.
The few good and devout men, and the infrequent prayer-meetings which were held, seemed powerless to restrain the downward tendency of morals.
There was no arm of law sufficiently powerful to restrain the mob, and anarchy, with all its desolation, reigned for a time triumphant.

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