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Free :: Free (a.) To remove, as something that confines or bars; to relieve from the constraint of..

Free :: Free (superl.) Exempt from subjection to the will of others; not under restraint, control, or compulsion; able to follow one's own impulses, desires, or inclinations; determining one's own course of action; not dependent; at liberty..

Titter :: Titter (n.) A restrained laugh.

Stress :: Stress (n.) The force, or combination of forces, which produces a strain; force exerted in any direction or manner between contiguous bodies, or parts of bodies, and taking specific names according to its direction, or mode of action, as thrust or pressure, pull or tension, shear or tangential stress..

Famish :: Famish (v. t.) To force or constrain by famine.

Duress :: Duress (n.) Hardship; constraint; pressure; imprisonment; restraint of liberty.

Wring :: Wring (v. t.) To twist and compress; to turn and strain with violence; to writhe; to squeeze hard; to pinch; as, to wring clothes in washing..

Cage :: Cage (n.) A wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and pipes..

Continency :: Continency (n.) The restraint which a person imposes upon his desires and passions; the act or power of refraining from indulgence of the sexual appetite, esp. from unlawful indulgence; sometimes, moderation in sexual indulgence..

Controller :: Controller (n.) One who, or that which, controls or restraines; one who has power or authority to regulate or control; one who governs..

Incontinent :: Incontinent (a.) Unable to restrain natural evacuations.

Streit :: Strein (v. t.) To strain.

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..

Contain :: Contain (v. t.) To put constraint upon; to restrain; to confine; to keep within bounds.

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..

Broad :: Broad (superl.) Free; unrestrained; unconfined.

Fain :: Fain (a.) Satisfied; contented; also, constrained..

Stay :: Stay (n.) Restraint of passion; moderation; caution; steadiness; sobriety.

Efforce :: Efforce (v. t.) To force; to constrain; to compel to yield.

Reserve :: Reserve (n.) Restraint of freedom in words or actions; backwardness; caution in personal behavior.

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