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

Enjoin :: Enjoin (v. t.) To prohibit or restrain by a judicial order or decree; to put an injunction on.

Free Will :: Free will () A will free from improper coercion or restraint.

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

Elutriate :: Elutriate (v. t.) To wash or strain out so as to purify; as, to elutriate the blood as it passes through the lungs; to strain off or decant, as a powder which is separated from heavier particles by being drawn off with water; to cleanse, as by washing..

Control :: Control (v. t.) To exercise restraining or governing influence over; to check; to counteract; to restrain; to regulate; to govern; to overpower.

Sash :: Sash (n.) In a sawmill, the rectangular frame in which the saw is strained and by which it is carried up and down with a reciprocating motion; -- also called gate..

Rescue :: Rescue (v. t.) To free or deliver from any confinement, violence, danger, or evil; to liberate from actual restraint; to remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil; as, to rescue a prisoner from the enemy; to rescue seamen from destruction..

Vengeance :: Vengeance (n.) Punishment inflicted in return for an injury or an offense; retribution; -- often, in a bad sense, passionate or unrestrained revenge..

Self-restraint :: Self-restraint (n.) Restraint over one's self; self-control; self-command.

Back :: Back (adv.) In a state of restraint or hindrance.

Riotous :: Riotous (a.) Involving, or engaging in, riot; wanton; unrestrained; luxurious..

Tirade :: Tirade (n.) A declamatory strain or flight of censure or abuse; a rambling invective; an oration or harangue abounding in censorious and bitter language.

Restraint :: Restraint (n.) The state of being restrained.

Detain :: Detain (v. t.) To restrain from proceeding; to stay or stop; to delay; as, we were detained by an accident..

Stay :: Stay (v. i.) To hold from proceeding; to withhold; to restrain; to stop; to hold.

Broad :: Broad (superl.) Fig.: Having a large measure of any thing or quality; not limited; not restrained; -- applied to any subject, and retaining the literal idea more or less clearly, the precise meaning depending largely on the substantive..

Manacle :: Manacle (v. t.) To put handcuffs or other fastening upon, for confining the hands; to shackle; to confine; to restrain from the use of the limbs or natural powers..

Strain :: Strain (a.) To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.

Agonistical :: Agonistical (a.) Pertaining to violent contests, bodily or mental; pertaining to athletic or polemic feats; athletic; combative; hence, strained; unnatural..

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