restraining

English

Verb

restraining

1. present participle and gerund of restrain

Noun

restraining (plural restrainings)

1. The act by which someone or something is restrained.
   • 1895, George Meredith, The Amazing Marriage:

     She had the privilege of a soul beyond our minor rules and restrainings to speak her wishes to the true wife of a mock husband—no husband; less a husband than this shadow of a woman a wife, she said; […]

Related terms

• restraining order