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Stop :: Stop (v. t.) To hinder from acting or moving; to prevent the effect or efficiency of; to cause to cease; to repress; to restrain; to suppress; to interrupt; to suspend; as, to stop the execution of a decree, the progress of vice, the approaches of old age or infirmity..

Quarantine :: Quarantine (n.) Specifically, the term, originally of forty days, during which a ship arriving in port, and suspected of being infected a malignant contagious disease, is obliged to forbear all intercourse with the shore; hence, such restraint or inhibition of intercourse; also, the place where infected or prohibited vessels are stationed..

Rescue :: Rescue (v.) The act of rescuing; deliverance from restraint, violence, or danger; liberation..

Clean :: Clean (superl.) Free from restraint or neglect; complete; entire.

Suppressible :: Suppress (v. t.) To stop; to restrain; to arrest the discharges of; as, to suppress a diarrhea, or a hemorrhage..

Barnacle :: Barnacle (n.) An instrument for pinching a horse's nose, and thus restraining him..

Hold :: Hold (v. t.) To cause to remain in a given situation, position, or relation, within certain limits, or the like; to prevent from falling or escaping; to sustain; to restrain; to keep in the grasp; to retain..

Restrain :: Restrain (v. t.) To draw back toghtly, as a rein..

Frank :: Frank (n.) Unrestrained; loose; licentious; -- used in a bad sense.

Arrest :: Arrest (v. t.) The taking or apprehending of a person by authority of law; legal restraint; custody. Also, a decree, mandate, or warrant..

Untie :: Untie (v. t.) To free from fastening or from restraint; to let loose; to unbind.

Moderation :: Moderation (n.) The act of moderating, or of imposing due restraint..

Inhibition :: Inhibition (n.) A stopping or checking of an already present action; a restraining of the function of an organ, or an agent, as a digestive fluid or ferment, etc.; as, the inhibition of the respiratory center by the pneumogastric nerve; the inhibition of reflexes, etc..

Unfetter :: Unfetter (v. t.) To loose from fetters or from restraint; to unchain; to unshackle; to liberate; as, to unfetter the mind..

Confine :: Confine (v. t.) To restrain within limits; to restrict; to limit; to bound; to shut up; to inclose; to keep close.

Revoke :: Revoke (v. t.) To hold back; to repress; to restrain.

Keeping :: Keeping (n.) A holding; restraint; custody; guard; charge; care; preservation.

Unmoralized :: Unmoralized (a.) Not restrained or tutored by morality.

Titter :: Titter (v. t.) To laugh with the tongue striking against the root of the upper teeth; to laugh with restraint, or without much noise; to giggle..

Restrainment :: Restrainment (n.) The act of restraining.

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