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Restraining

noun, verb

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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; […]"

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of restrain form-of, gerund, participle, present

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