restraining
English edit
Verb edit
restraining
- present participle and gerund of restrain
Noun edit
restraining (plural restrainings)
- 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; […]