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constrain

English

  1. 🔊 compel to behave in a certain way
    “Social relations impose courtesy”
  2. 🔊 severely restrict in scope or extent
    “tighten the rules”
  3. 🔊 to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement
    “This holds the local until the express passengers change trains”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 constreƱir to constrain
  2. 🔊 restringir to constrain
  3. 🔊 atar to constrain, limit (prevent or remove movement, leave (someone or something) without freedom of movement or ability to act)

Similar words

stiffen tighten tighten up restrain confine hold enforce impose abate abridge abstain aggrieve allay alleviate arrest assuage attemper ban bank the fire bar bastille bear bind bit