"restrain" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

restrain verbo

restrain + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 18
restrain orders • restrain spending • restrain trade • restrain inflation • restrain one's hands • ...
(1) order, hand, strap, Israel
Kolokacji: 4
(2) spending, price
Kolokacji: 2
(4) inflation, demand, tear
Kolokacji: 3
1. restrain inflation = opanować inflację restrain inflation
2. restrain demand = ogranicz żądanie restrain demand
3. restrain one's tears = hamować czyjś łzy restrain one's tears
  • They leaned together, each supporting the other, and Silence could no longer restrain her tears.
  • Her face turned white, and her eyes bulged as she tried to restrain her tears.
  • She was trying by some wonderful, secret, and motionless gymnastics to restrain her tears.
  • I think you can say that they managed to restrain their tears.
  • Here the kind-hearted old woman could not restrain her tears.
  • Anne of Austria was a woman; she could not restrain her tears.
  • For the moment she seemed unable to speak, and was squeezing Rose's hand to help herself restrain her tears.
  • The time had been, and a very few days before, when the child could not have restrained her tears and must have wept with him.
  • Immediately behind them, a young woman hovered, trying bravely to restrain her tears.
  • So far Mary had restrained her tears, but now she gave way to them.
(5) anger, curiosity, enthusiasm
Kolokacji: 3
restrain + preposición
Kolokacji: 13
restrain from • restrained in • restrain with • restrained by • restrain to • ...
restrain + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 9
barely restrain • physically restrain • forcibly restrained • hardly restrain • properly restrained • ...

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