"restrain" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

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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
(5) anger, curiosity, enthusiasm
Kolokacji: 3
1. restrain one's anger = hamować czyjś gniew restrain one's anger
  • He wanted time to weigh up the story, also to restrain his anger against the politicians.
  • It was a bitter one, adopted only to restrain his flaring anger.
  • He placed a hand on Shakuntala's shoulder, restraining her anger.
  • Restraining his anger, he looked down at the worn face and asked, "Why tell me this?"
  • Port restrained his mounting anger, which, even as he was feeling it, made him annoyed with himself.
  • Sadda, taken by surprise, had been battling to restrain her anger.
  • And making an effort to restrain his anger, not to say too much, he turned and went on.
  • George restrained his natural anger at being confronted with a secret, and remembered an excuse for the authorities.
  • Charles restrained his anger, and started on a new tack.
  • Struggling to restrain his anger, he said, "Because it is wrong, if nothing else!"
2. restrain one's curiosity = hamować czyjś ciekawość restrain one's curiosity
3. restrain one's enthusiasm = hamować czyjś entuzjazm restrain one's enthusiasm
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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