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constraintnoun the checking of one's true feelings and impulses when dealing with othersin civilized society people do not just say or do whatever they feel like—they exercise some constraint continence, discipline, discretion, inhibition, refrainment, repression, reserve, restraint, self-command, self-control, self-restraint, suppression command, control, mastery, possessionself-censorship, self-containment, self-denial, self-discipline, self-government, self-mastery, will, willpowercomposure, self-poise, self-possessionaloofness, detachedness, distancebashfulness, modesty, shynessreticence, silence, taciturnity disinhibition, incontinence, unconstraint self-abandonment, uninhibitednessunrestrainednessgratification, indulgence, overindulgence, self-indulgencebluntness, candor, franknessimmoderacy, intemperance something that limits one's freedom of action or choiceput legal constraints on the board's activities check, circumscription, condition, curb, fetter, limitation, restraint, restriction, stricture exception, proviso, qualification, reservation, stipulation, stringsban, prohibition, proscription freedom, latitude the use of power to impose one's will on anotherparental constraint can take several different forms, including a denial of the approval that children usually seek from their parents arm-twisting, coercion, compulsion, duress, force, pressure browbeating, bulldozing, bullyingfear, intimidation, menace, sword, terror, terrorism, threat, violencesqueeze, squeeze playmight, muscle, potency, puissance, strengthhardheadedness, self-will, willfulnessstrain, stress agreement, approval, consent, permissionconvincing, persuasion, reason, suasion in the 15th century |