restrained

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈstɹeɪnd/

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  • Rhymes: -eɪnd

restrained (comparative more restrained, superlative most restrained)

1. Held back, limited, kept in check or under control.

   He greeted her for the first time in three years with a restrained embrace.

2. (obsolete) Proscribed, restricted.
   • c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv], page 69, columns 1-2:

     Ha? fie, these filthy vices. It were as good
     To pardon him, that hath from nature stolne a man already made, as to remit
     Their sawcie sweetnes, that do coyne heauens Image
     In stamps that are forbid: 'tis all as easie,
     Falsely to take away a life true made,
     As to put mettle in restrained meanes
     To make a false one.

restrained

1. simple past and past participle of restrain

   He was restrained by the straight jacket.

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