| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. An instrument or means of restraining: bit2, brake, bridle, leash, snaffle. See RESTRAINT. 2. Something that physically confines the legs or arms: bond, chain (used in plural), fetter, handcuff (often used in plural), hobble, iron (used in plural), manacle, shackle. Archaic : gyve. See FREE. 3. The keeping of one's thoughts and emotions to oneself: control, reserve, reticence, self-control, self-restraint, taciturnity, uncommunicativeness. See RESTRAINT. 4. Something that limits or restricts: check, circumscription, constraint, cramp2, curb, inhibition, limit, limitation, restriction, stricture, trammel. See LIMITED. 5. The act of limiting or condition of being limited: circumscription, confinement, constraint, limitation, restriction. See LIMITED.
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