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Inhibition :: Inhibition (n.) The act of inhibiting, or the state of being inhibited; restraint; prohibition; embargo..

Stintedness :: Stintance (n.) Restraint; stoppage.

Bind :: Bind (v. i.) To be restrained from motion, or from customary or natural action, as by friction..

Ruly :: Ruly (a.) Orderly; easily restrained; -- opposed to unruly.

Forwardness :: Forwardness (n.) Eagerness; ardor; as, it is difficult to restrain the forwardness of youth..

Spontaneity :: Spontaneity (n.) The tendency to undergo change, characteristic of both animal and vegetable organisms, and not restrained or cheked by the environment..

Repress :: Repress (v. t.) Hence, to check; to restrain; to keep back..

Free Will :: Free will () The power asserted of moral beings of willing or choosing without the restraints of physical or absolute necessity.

Behave :: Behave (v. t.) To manage or govern in point of behavior; to discipline; to handle; to restrain.

Sprain :: Sprain (v. t.) To weaken, as a joint, ligament, or muscle, by sudden and excessive exertion, as by wrenching; to overstrain, or stretch injuriously, but without luxation; as, to sprain one's ankle..

Broken :: Broken (v. t.) Fractured; cracked; disunited; sundered; strained; apart; as, a broken reed; broken friendship..

Govern :: Govern (v. t.) To regulate; to influence; to direct; to restrain; to manage; as, to govern the life; to govern a horse..

Reprehend :: Reprehend (v. t.) To reprove or reprimand with a view of restraining, checking, or preventing; to make charge of fault against; to disapprove of; to chide; to blame; to censure..

Confinement :: Confinement (n.) Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion.

Uneasy :: Uneasy (a.) Occasioning want of ease; constraining; cramping; disagreeable; unpleasing.

Sagging :: Sagging (n.) A bending or sinking between the ends of a thing, in consequence of its own, or an imposed, weight; an arching downward in the middle, as of a ship after straining. Cf. Hogging..

Gavot :: Gavot (n.) A kind of difficult dance; a dance tune, the air of which has two brisk and lively, yet dignified, strains in common time, each played twice over..

Mot :: Mot (n.) A note or brief strain on a bugle.

Loosen :: Loosen (v. t.) To free from restraint; to set at liberty..

Distraint :: Distraint (n.) The act or proceeding of seizing personal property by distress.

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