Synonyms for Restraining:

• adj.

  •binding (adjective)
  • more enslaved,
  • most enslaved,
  • more limiting,
  • most attached,
  • more attached,
  • most limiting.
  •controlling (adjective)
  • coercive,
  • Prohibiting,
  • restrictive,
  • forbidding,
  • constraining.
  •governing (adjective)
  • more ordering,
  • more mastering,
  • over-seeing,
  • super-intending,
  • more conducting,
  • more superintending,
  • most guiding,
  • more gubernatorial,
  • most directing,
  • most ordering,
  • most conducting,
  • super intending,
  • over seeing,
  • most gubernatorial,
  • more overseeing,
  • most overseeing,
  • most superintending,
  • more guiding,
  • more directing,
  • more presidential,
  • most mastering,
  • most presidential.
  •hindering (adjective)
  • crippling,
  • Resisting,
  • Delaying,
  • bottleneck,
  • Obstructing,
  • Damming,
  • impeding,
  • burdensome,
  • Cramping,
  • constipating,
  • Snarling,
  • Fouling,
  • Entrapping,
  • Snagging,
  • frustrating,
  • blocking,
  • Complicating,
  • baffling,
  • restricting,
  • choking,
  • Tangling,
  • Handicapping,
  • Entangling,
  • Crimping,
  • hindering,
  • congesting,
  • Detaining,
  • Clogging,
  • Encumbering,
  • thwarting.
  •limiting (adjective)
  • edge,
  • zenith,
  • utmost,
  • maximum,
  • extreme.
  •Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • enslaved,
  • binding,
  • prohibitive,
  • tying,
  • confined,
  • presidential,
  • gubernatorial,
  • tied,
  • retaining,
  • Overseeing.
  •prohibitive (adjective)
  • Proscriptive,
  • financial means conditional,
  • sky-high.
  •retaining (adjective)
  • Having.
  •tying (adjective)
  • most shackling,
  • more restricting,
  • more shackling,
  • most restricting.

• n.

  •arrest (noun)
  • sequesterings,
  • de lay,
  • pull ins,
  • restrainings,
  • pick ups,
  • re straining,
  • de-lays,
  • gloms,
  • preventive custodies,
  • stayings,
  • de-lay,
  • re-straining,
  • protective custodies,
  • de lays.
  •confining (noun)
  • imprisonings,
  • boundings,
  • enclosings,
  • detainings.
  •Other relevant words: (noun)
  • glom,
  • gaffs,
  • stallings,
  • confining,
  • nick,
  • restraint,
  • inhibition,
  • mitt,
  • protective custody,
  • gaff,
  • preventive custody,
  • pick up,
  • checkings,
  • jailings,
  • run in,
  • falls,
  • MITTS.

• v.

  •commanding (verb)
  • governing.
  •dissuading (verb)
  • averting,
  • barring,
  • Deterring,
  • disheartening,
  • inhibiting,
  • diverting,
  • discouraging,
  • daunting,
  • depressing,
  • Preventing,
  • intimidating,
  • chilling,
  • Derailing,
  • admonishing,
  • Disinclining,
  • Deflecting,
  • banning,
  • dampening,
  • Checking,
  • Dissuading.
  •hindering (verb)
  • dragging,
  • opposing,
  • countering,
  • Impairing,
  • Miring,
  • Interrupting,
  • Hamstringing,
  • Burdening,
  • Hampering,
  • fettering,
  • Paralyzing,
  • stopping,
  • Staying,
  • catching,
  • bottlenecking,
  • curbing,
  • jamming,
  • Bunging,
  • Plugging,
  • braking.
  •limiting (verb)
  • ending,
  • Rimming,
  • bordering,
  • bounding,
  • edging,
  • Terminating,
  • limiting.
  •moderating (verb)
  • Subduing,
  • calming,
  • softening,
  • Quieting,
  • moderating,
  • soothing,
  • easing,
  • abating,
  • pacifying,
  • Alleviating,
  • cooling,
  • tranquilizing,
  • relaxing,
  • composing.
  •prohibiting (verb)
  • Disallowing,
  • controlling,
  • Suppressing,
  • disqualifying,
  • Oppressing,
  • disapproving,
  • Precluding,
  • Outlawing,
  • Curtailing,
  • Denying,
  • Rejecting,
  • Refusing.
  •restraining (verb)
  • Bridling,
  • Tethering,
  • Leashing,
  • Shackling,
  • constricting,
  • Collaring.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • arrest.
  •Other relevant words:
  • press,
  • boundary,
  • browning automatic rifle,
  • hold off,
  • see to it,
  • retardent,
  • contracting,
  • contraceptive device,
  • barroom,
  • harbor,
  • declare,
  • mark,
  • hand,
  • crush,
  • tough,
  • ratiocination,
  • regularize,
  • swaggering,
  • blank out,
  • tick off,
  • temper,
  • pack,
  • bank check,
  • save,
  • demarcation,
  • dominance,
  • dressing,
  • command,
  • ignore,
  • mince,
  • blockage,
  • enforce,
  • agree,
  • sniffy,
  • engagement,
  • admit,
  • level,
  • post,
  • check up on,
  • exclude,
  • chastisement,
  • handicap,
  • cargo hold,
  • fit,
  • ask for,
  • control condition,
  • modestness,
  • proceedings,
  • resistless,
  • ascendancy,
  • upshot,
  • bandaged,
  • hook,
  • conceal,
  • choke up,
  • continue,
  • abscission,
  • retard,
  • crippled,
  • intoxicate,
  • cut,
  • indentured,
  • prophylactic,
  • palliation,
  • rebuff,
  • back,
  • tab,
  • correspond,
  • collect,
  • verboten,
  • issue,
  • muffle,
  • forget,
  • constriction,
  • bond,
  • assuasive,
  • obturate,
  • disregard,
  • have,
  • withstand,
  • transport,
  • clutches,
  • clamp down,
  • specify,
  • dungeon,
  • strangling,
  • measure up,
  • finish,
  • chapeau,
  • last,
  • transmit,
  • discontinuance,
  • quest,
  • impart,
  • governance,
  • shivery,
  • destruction,
  • appropriate,
  • go on,
  • see,
  • jam,
  • modify,
  • sensational,
  • articled,
  • go over,
  • proceed,
  • prohibition era,
  • baseball mitt,
  • inclosure,
  • prediction,
  • chasteness,
  • liquidation,
  • stipulate,
  • frugal,
  • stopover,
  • catch,
  • check off,
  • have a bun in the oven,
  • opinion,
  • intercept,
  • reposeful,
  • reverberate,
  • impose,
  • reasoning by elimination,
  • ostracize,
  • extermination,
  • point of accumulation,
  • preserve,
  • vaginal birth,
  • fix,
  • slowness,
  • take for,
  • call for,
  • match,
  • subnormality,
  • out,
  • interdict,
  • shunning,
  • detection,
  • chequer,
  • comprise,
  • engine block,
  • nurture,
  • point,
  • squelch,
  • cast out,
  • composition,
  • learn,
  • regulate,
  • imprisoned,
  • holdup,
  • conduct,
  • confirmation,
  • hold in,
  • electronic jamming,
  • full point,
  • captive,
  • train,
  • collar,
  • gouge,
  • deport,
  • labor,
  • deflect,
  • hold open,
  • plosive,
  • prophylactic device,
  • convey,
  • diaphragm,
  • embarrass,
  • obstructer,
  • retrieve,
  • call up,
  • rafter,
  • curtailment,
  • determination,
  • demarcation line,
  • abut,
  • ascendence,
  • bounds,
  • keep back,
  • privacy,
  • fillet,
  • ascendance,
  • elate,
  • butt against,
  • mastery,
  • dribble,
  • defend,
  • emollient,
  • extenuation,
  • time lag,
  • repulse,
  • communicable,
  • dent,
  • stuff,
  • checkout,
  • obsession,
  • get word,
  • view as,
  • ligature,
  • get wind,
  • jump,
  • light,
  • defunctness,
  • butt,
  • childbed,
  • measure,
  • solution,
  • snitch,
  • comport,
  • takedown,
  • frustrative,
  • regularise,
  • elevation,
  • stamp down,
  • banish,
  • remainder,
  • moderateness,
  • legal profession,
  • deterrent,
  • indicate,
  • concur,
  • dodging,
  • maintain,
  • bandage,
  • make,
  • appeasement,
  • close,
  • barricade,
  • eyelid,
  • dominant,
  • pulley block,
  • commend,
  • keep down,
  • lift up,
  • adjudge,
  • espial,
  • tie,
  • shun,
  • check-out procedure,
  • peck,
  • jib,
  • cooling system,
  • second-stringer,
  • sulphurous,
  • hold up,
  • knotty,
  • balky,
  • taciturnity,
  • oppress,
  • hold on,
  • government activity,
  • soften,
  • stick to,
  • think,
  • paw,
  • security review,
  • resultant role,
  • immobilize,
  • enjoinment,
  • uncheerful,
  • passing,
  • disdainful,
  • conquer,
  • final result,
  • clasp,
  • required,
  • salving,
  • impedimenta,
  • tranquilising,
  • inch,
  • stymy,
  • simpleness,
  • imperative mood,
  • verification,
  • betoken,
  • extremum,
  • sustenance,
  • book binding,
  • demoralizing,
  • regnant,
  • border,
  • think of,
  • bandaging,
  • bachelor of arts in nursing,
  • defy,
  • irresistible impulse,
  • stanch,
  • tighten,
  • order,
  • excretion,
  • think back,
  • strangulation,
  • complaisant,
  • prevail,
  • stay fresh,
  • recall,
  • furthermost,
  • cold shoulder,
  • contagious,
  • regulation,
  • contractable,
  • encouraging,
  • breeding,
  • amusive,
  • living,
  • request,
  • predominant,
  • economical,
  • block off,
  • jailed,
  • miscarriage,
  • stand fast,
  • kerb,
  • leap,
  • operate,
  • prohibited,
  • stop consonant,
  • hemostatic,
  • enslavement,
  • decision,
  • ominous,
  • subjection,
  • forbid,
  • accommodative,
  • taking into custody,
  • substitute,
  • cumber,
  • stick,
  • mark off,
  • lay off,
  • observe,
  • condition,
  • handle,
  • expectancy,
  • manus,
  • quash,
  • upbringing,
  • stay,
  • immobilise,
  • encumbrance,
  • insure,
  • hinder,
  • secrecy,
  • strangle,
  • incumbrance,
  • retardant,
  • bottle up,
  • hold firm,
  • stymie,
  • take hold,
  • cylinder block,
  • deceleration,
  • discipline,
  • bounce,
  • chair,
  • centrist,
  • gather up,
  • close up,
  • grim,
  • custody,
  • waterfall,
  • crack,
  • attach,
  • relegate,
  • discover,
  • jussive mood,
  • thieve,
  • recoil,
  • resistance,
  • curtail,
  • quit,
  • apprenticed,
  • smother,
  • outcome,
  • tight,
  • check out,
  • prideful,
  • problematical,
  • riddance,
  • stiffen,
  • rearing,
  • acerbic,
  • resultant,
  • period,
  • extreme point,
  • characterize,
  • threatening,
  • farthermost,
  • sinister,
  • lying-in,
  • donjon,
  • hold out,
  • check into,
  • give,
  • zippy,
  • controller,
  • perk up,
  • driven,
  • gain vigor,
  • spirited,
  • pressure,
  • concord,
  • terminate,
  • characterise,
  • season,
  • evacuation,
  • cake,
  • plosive consonant,
  • reigning,
  • transmissible,
  • ski binding,
  • cheque,
  • elusive,
  • immurement,
  • lead,
  • making,
  • checker,
  • deem,
  • handgrip,
  • stifle,
  • livelihood,
  • commemorate,
  • overbearing,
  • mollify,
  • stripe,
  • imperative form,
  • ascertain,
  • censor,
  • ascendency,
  • incarceration,
  • close out,
  • chokepoint,
  • tally,
  • throttle,
  • destined,
  • discontinue,
  • leaping,
  • express,
  • slowdown,
  • grip,
  • trammel,
  • incapacitating,
  • temperate,
  • temperature reduction,
  • squelcher,
  • staunch,
  • contraceptive,
  • forestall,
  • labour,
  • detention,
  • palpebra,
  • spotting,
  • expect,
  • allow,
  • cutting,
  • level best,
  • determine,
  • obstruct,
  • accommodate,
  • storage area,
  • draw a blank,
  • conquest,
  • rebound,
  • pass,
  • terminus,
  • clench,
  • death,
  • problematic,
  • tick,
  • sustain,
  • truss,
  • stenosis,
  • apply,
  • throw,
  • constipate,
  • blockade,
  • game,
  • spring,
  • find out,
  • parry,
  • effect,
  • proscribed,
  • remnant,
  • apprehend,
  • maximal,
  • curb bit,
  • overlooking,
  • observant,
  • appreciation,
  • pulley,
  • recollect,
  • urgent,
  • ataraxic,
  • restful,
  • goal,
  • mental retardation,
  • reproving,
  • apprehension,
  • uninterrupted,
  • tranquillising,
  • cheerless,
  • sedative,
  • turning away,
  • expectation,
  • lug,
  • supercilious,
  • saloon,
  • constrictive,
  • suffocative,
  • saltation,
  • concordant,
  • forbidden,
  • scotch,
  • birth control device,
  • break,
  • encumber,
  • consequence,
  • give up,
  • baleful,
  • reservation,
  • legal proceeding,
  • opponent,
  • nab,
  • occlude,
  • blackball,
  • menacing,
  • enclose,
  • aversion,
  • furthest,
  • closure,
  • backlog,
  • bringing up,
  • legal community,
  • go along,
  • debar,
  • childbearing,
  • impulsive,
  • peppy,
  • tabu,
  • minatory,
  • sway,
  • cover,
  • travail,
  • voiding,
  • resolution,
  • obligate,
  • impediment,
  • resistivity,
  • trussed,
  • upper limit,
  • obstacle,
  • ensure,
  • forbear,
  • ricochet,
  • enthusiastically,
  • guard,
  • substantiation,
  • uplift,
  • clutch,
  • simplicity,
  • resile,
  • look into,
  • lame,
  • stock,
  • percolate,
  • bread and butter,
  • book,
  • interference,
  • taxing,
  • stoppage,
  • run,
  • gestate,
  • sparing,
  • butt on,
  • pulley-block,
  • disabling,
  • earmark,
  • solvent,
  • city block,
  • drive,
  • watch,
  • stopping point,
  • support,
  • take,
  • bear,
  • administration,
  • astringent drug,
  • acquit,
  • haughty,
  • obstructive,
  • postponement,
  • fastened,
  • pinch,
  • suffocating,
  • have got,
  • glove,
  • determined,
  • wait,
  • full stop,
  • dispose,
  • cease,
  • electrical resistance,
  • confine to,
  • keep in line,
  • backwardness,
  • stem,
  • hat,
  • moistening,
  • gimpy,
  • electric resistance,
  • baseball glove,
  • freeze,
  • streak,
  • ginmill,
  • persuade,
  • modification,
  • jibe,
  • reduce,
  • banishment,
  • mandatory,
  • sulfurous,
  • occlusion,
  • amex,
  • fostering,
  • finale,
  • lordly,
  • chink,
  • kibosh,
  • hitch,
  • amusing,
  • reduction,
  • perk,
  • spying,
  • keep open,
  • farthest,
  • entertain,
  • narrowing,
  • temperance,
  • chip,
  • excreting,
  • assure,
  • lift,
  • breast feeding,
  • celebrate,
  • covert,
  • ostracise,
  • stand pat,
  • master,
  • finis,
  • admonitory,
  • tighten up,
  • subdue,
  • turn around,
  • cease and desist order,
  • demulcent,
  • auction block,
  • obstructor,
  • transmittable,
  • leave,
  • hear,
  • ataractic,
  • reticence,
  • terminal,
  • chit,
  • stockpile,
  • dominating,
  • harbour,
  • ready and waiting,
  • signal,
  • enclosure,
  • plosive speech sound,
  • subjugate,
  • check over,
  • reproachful,
  • easement,
  • expiry,
  • uttermost,
  • repel,
  • keep on,
  • knock off,
  • closing,
  • moderationist,
  • sultry,
  • tone down,
  • fosterage,
  • rule,
  • military reserve,
  • demoralising,
  • occlusive,
  • verify,
  • gibe,
  • privateness,
  • snick,
  • extend,
  • rife,
  • manipulate,
  • prevalent,
  • assay,
  • terminal point,
  • cop,
  • ensue,
  • subjugation,
  • defeat,
  • bouncy,
  • government,
  • adhere,
  • check mark,
  • chronic,
  • lag,
  • onerous,
  • sharpness,
  • alleviation,
  • load-bearing,
  • adjoin,
  • block up,
  • get a line,
  • accouchement,
  • stop over,
  • foreclose,
  • nail,
  • grasp,
  • answer,
  • get,
  • oddment,
  • cube,
  • cargo area,
  • dour,
  • minacious,
  • shuddery,
  • imprisonment,
  • deduct,
  • cargo deck,
  • resist,
  • middle of the roader,
  • limit point,
  • go for,
  • oblige,
  • layover,
  • rule out,
  • mental block,
  • screen,
  • call back,
  • end point,
  • cut back,
  • incorporate,
  • dispiriting,
  • withholding tax,
  • envelopment,
  • hold fast,
  • even,
  • laced,
  • take a hop,
  • break off,
  • set,
  • stunning,
  • restrained,
  • tame,
  • turn back,
  • devastating,
  • rigorous,
  • define,
  • tie up,
  • set aside,
  • receive,
  • obtain,
  • prevision,
  • parturiency,
  • channel,
  • notch,
  • acerb,
  • event,
  • experimental extinction,
  • correction,
  • ding,
  • taproom,
  • nurse,
  • expiration,
  • endpoint,
  • recoup,
  • relief,
  • march,
  • scary,
  • behave.
  •Other relevant words (noun):
  • conclusion,
  • check,
  • containment,
  • withhold,
  • Recoiling,
  • Refraining,
  • preventative,
  • obstruction,
  • compulsion,
  • Mitigating,
  • forbiddance,
  • stand still,
  • hold back,
  • delay,
  • Modifying,
  • Chaining,
  • accommodating,
  • coercion,
  • remember,
  • Containing,
  • defending,
  • preclusion,
  • driving,
  • frustration,
  • supporting,
  • jumping,
  • constraint,
  • moderation,
  • hold,
  • extinction,
  • observing,
  • Squelching,
  • baulking,
  • compulsory,
  • Intercepting,
  • injunction,
  • Quashing,
  • enchaining,
  • Declaring,
  • proceeding,
  • compelling,
  • limit,
  • cutting off,
  • elimination,
  • holding back,
  • qualifying,
  • inhibitory,
  • baulk,
  • constrain,
  • curb,
  • arresting,
  • Cumbering,
  • retardation,
  • withholding,
  • hindrance,
  • foiling,
  • obliging,
  • Muting,
  • Abridging,
  • repress,
  • Harboring,
  • moderate,
  • repressing,
  • Carrying,
  • keeping in check,
  • ban,
  • fending off,
  • obligatory,
  • harbouring,
  • quenching,
  • preventive,
  • interception,
  • result,
  • reducing,
  • crushing,
  • quelling,
  • confinement,
  • astringent,
  • preserving,
  • taboo,
  • ensnaring,
  • govern,
  • raising,
  • Haltering,
  • contain,
  • Applying,
  • preclude,
  • interdiction,
  • childbirth,
  • enjoining,
  • Celebrating,
  • bound,
  • Defying,
  • end,
  • qualify,
  • suppression,
  • Ceasing,
  • inhibitive,
  • imperative,
  • bar,
  • reserve,
  • aborting,
  • tie down,
  • prohibitory,
  • snub,
  • Retarding,
  • Silencing,
  • stand firm,
  • retain,
  • prevention,
  • Proscribing,
  • Imprisoning,
  • catch up,
  • ricocheting,
  • hiding,
  • booking,
  • modesty,
  • control,
  • Adjudging,
  • enclosing,
  • avoidance,
  • Snaring,
  • Yoking,
  • Caging,
  • termination,
  • discontinuation,
  • bespeak,
  • censoring,
  • costive,
  • Deeming,
  • abstemious,
  • limitation,
  • continuous,
  • Modulating,
  • prohibition,
  • bridle,
  • guarding,
  • stifling,
  • receptacle,
  • confine,
  • compulsive,
  • continuing,
  • chaste,
  • balking,
  • Admitting,
  • crack down,
  • captivity,
  • obviation,
  • Managing,
  • ruling,
  • put-down,
  • slowing,
  • irresistible,
  • suppress,
  • concealment,
  • strangulating,
  • Apprehending,
  • impedance,
  • chastening,
  • detain,
  • smothering,
  • anticipation,
  • staving off,
  • impede,
  • conquering,
  • restrain,
  • waiting,
  • Interdicting,
  • entertaining,
  • Maintaining,
  • suppressive,
  • block,
  • prevailing,
  • imperious,
  • commanding,
  • Coercing,
  • extinguishing,
  • Muffling,
  • carry,
  • keep,
  • lid,
  • stringent,
  • proscription,
  • styptic,
  • balk,
  • forestalling,
  • repression,
  • surcease,
  • repressive,
  • Reserving,
  • bouncing,
  • cessation,
  • Circumscribing,
  • stinting,
  • qualification,
  • Obtaining,
  • nursing,
  • prevent,
  • Discontinuing,
  • throttling,
  • agreeing,
  • stop,
  • circumscription,
  • regulating,
  • rebounding,
  • bind,
  • debarment,
  • cracking down on,
  • putting down,
  • Avoiding,
  • Debarring,
  • censorship,
  • stricture,
  • abortion,
  • pressing,
  • Tabooing,
  • circumscribe,
  • Reining,
  • restrict,
  • cut-off,
  • Harnessing,
  • concealing,
  • halting,
  • restriction,
  • warding off,
  • concurring,
  • inhibit,
  • mitigation,
  • halt.

Paraphrases for Restraining:

• Equivalence

  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    curbing, constraining.

• Independent

  • Proper noun, singular
    constraints, withholding.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    constraint, constraining, remoteness, banning, self-restraint, prohibition, Prohibiting, ban, alienation, contention, deportation, withholding.
  • Verb, past tense
    Curtailed, imposed, inhibited, limited, unrestricted, constraint.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    Reining, retaining, Detaining, stifling, averting, discouraging, hindering, Relieving, minimising, regulating, Removing, impeding, Mitigating, Suppressing, Harnessing, Deterring, minimizing, thwarting, stopping, arresting, enjoining, contain, Containing, diminishing, inhibiting, Hampering, confining, Reversing, Subduing, countering, Impairing, mastering, reducing, locked-in, Depriving, Obstructing, Precluding, Sacrificing, Proscribing, Taming, undermining, Stemming, shrinking, governing, Selecting, Denying, forbidding, Disallowing, moderating, binding, rising, Exempting, engaging, cracking, tying, barring, throttling, Forfeiting, Deducting, braking, causing, blocking, Earmarking, locking, controlling, Choosing, delimiting, qualifying, slowing, Capping, keeping, bounding, banning, prohibition, Prohibiting, withholding.

• Other Related

  • Proper noun, singular
    restraint.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    containment, injunction, restraint, curtailment, restrictiveness.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    dampening, halting.

Homophones for Restraining:

• right atrium, rostrum, restroom.