Meanings
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of restrain
nounrestraining (plural restrainings)
plural restrainings
- The act by which someone or something is restrained.
She had the privilege of a soul beyond our minor rules and restrainings to speak her wishes to the true wife of a mock husband—no husband; less a husband than this shadow of a woman a wife, she said; […]
1895, George Meredith, The Amazing Marriage
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“restraining.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/restraining. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “restraining,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/restraining.
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