To close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement.

synonyms: confine, constrain, hold.

Roget 751: restrain, check; put under restraint, lay under restraint; enthral, enthrall, inthral^†, inthrall^†, bethral^†, bethrall^†; restrict; debar etc. (hinder) 706; constrain; coerce etc. (compel) 744; curb, control; hold back, hold from, hold in, hold in check, hold within bounds, keep back, keep from, keep in, keep in check, keep within bounds; hold in leash, hold in leading strings; withhold.    keep under; repress, suppress; smother; pull in, rein in; hold, hold fast; keep a tight hand on; prohibit etc. 761; inhibit, cohibit^†.    enchain; fasten etc. (join) 43; fetter, shackle; entrammel^†; bridle, muzzle, hopple^†, gag, pinion, manacle, handcuff, tie one's hands, hobble, bind hand and foot; swathe, swaddle; pin down, tether; picket; tie down, tie up; secure; forge fetters; disable, hamstring (incapacitate) 158.    confine; shut up, shut in; clap up, lock up, box up, mew up, bottle up, cork up, seal up, button up; hem in, bolt in, wall in, rail in; impound, pen, coop; inclose etc. (circumscribe) 229; cage; incage^†, encage^†; close the door upon, cloister; imprison, immure; incarcerate, entomb; clap under hatches, lay under hatches; put in irons, put in a strait-waistcoat; throw into prison, cast into prison; put into bilboes.    arrest; take up, take charge of, take into custody; take prisoner, take captive, make prisoner, make captive; captivate; lead captive, lead into captivity; send to prison, commit to prison; commit; give in charge, give in custody; subjugate etc. 749.    ... show more

Roget 761: prohibit, inhibit; forbid, put one's veto upon, disallow, enjoin, ban, outlaw, taboo, proscribe, estop [Law]; bar; debar etc. (hinder) 706, forefend.    keep in, keep within bounds; restrain etc. 751; cohibit^†, withhold, limit, circumscribe, clip the wings of, restrict; interdict, taboo; put under an interdiction, place under an interdiction; put under the ban, place under the ban; proscribe; exclude, shut out; shut the door, bolt the door, show the door; warn off; dash the cup from one's lips; forbid the banns.    ... show more

Roget 744: compel, force, make, drive, coerce, constrain, enforce, necessitate, oblige.    force upon, press; cram down the throat, thrust down the throat, force down the throat; say it must be done, make a point of, insist upon, take no denial; put down, dragoon.    extort, wring from; squeeze, put on the squeeze; put on the screws, turn on the screw; drag into; bind, bind over; pin down, tie down; require, tax, put in force; commandeer; restrain etc. 751.    ... show more

Roget 195: become small, become smaller; lessen, decrease etc. 36; grow less, dwindle, shrink, contract, narrow, shrivel, collapse, wither, lose flesh, wizen, fall away, waste, wane, ebb; decay etc. (deteriorate) 659.    be smaller than, fall short of; not come up to etc. (be inferior) 34.    render smaller, lessen, diminish, contract, draw in, narrow, coarctate^†; boil down; constrict, constringe^†; condense, compress, squeeze, corrugate, crimp, crunch, crush, crumple up, warp, purse up, pack, squeeze, stow; pinch, tighten, strangle; cramp; dwarf, bedwarf^†; shorten etc. 201; circumscribe etc. 229; restrain etc. 751.    [reduce in size by abrasion or paring. ] (subtraction) 38 abrade, pare, reduce, attenuate, rub down, scrape, file, file down, grind, grind down, chip, shave, shear, wear down.    ... show more

Restrict (someone or something) so as to make free movement difficult.

synonyms: cumber, encumber.

Prevent (someone or something) from doing something.

Dutch: beheersen, belasten, betomen, inhouden, intomen, moeilijkheid

Prevent the action or expression of:
— She struggled to restrain her impatience at the delays.

synonyms: hold back, keep, keep back.

Dutch: beteugelen