Betekenis van:
restrain
to restrain
Werkwoord
- to compel or deter by or as if by threats
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Voorbeeldzinnen
- Restrain your impulses.
- Tom, please restrain yourself.
- He couldn't restrain his excitement.
- Tom couldn't restrain his anger.
- I couldn't restrain a smile.
- He could no longer restrain himself.
- He could not restrain his excitement.
- You must learn to restrain yourself.
- You should learn to restrain yourself.
- He tried to restrain his anger.
- I told Jim to restrain himself from drinking too much.
- We tried to restrain him from his reckless action.
- He was so funny at the party that I simply couldn't restrain my laughter.
- Before the horse race begins the jockeys grip the reins tightly to restrain the impatient horses.
- The gentle young wife pleaded with tears that her darling husband should restrain his habit of drinking so much.