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Withstrain

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To restrain. transitive

    "Even when this is known, [only] with difficulty is the multitude withstrained from doing sacrifice to a Paul and a Barnabas."

Etymology

From Middle English withstreynen, equivalent to with- + strain.

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