Here in a vast cavern king Aeolus rules over the struggling winds and howling tempests, and restrains them in prison with fetters.
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Restrains
Synonyms for "restrains" (276 found)
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Sample sentences
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They, in the rock reverberant held fast, / moan at the doors. Here, throned aloft, he reigns; / his sceptre calms their rage, their violence restrains: / else earth and sea and all the firmament / the winds together through the void would sweep.
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She restrains the boy.
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A fool does what they aren't capable of restraining themselves from doing; a wise person restrains themselves from doing what they aren't capable of.
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