All constrain synonyms

verb constrain

• inhibit — to restrain, hinder, arrest, or check (an action, impulse, etc.).
• bind — If something binds people together, it makes them feel as if they are all part of the same group or have something in common.
• necessitate — to make necessary or unavoidable: The breakdown of the car necessitated a change in our plans.
• curb — If you curb something, you control it and keep it within limits.
• constrict — If a part of your body, especially your throat, is constricted or if it constricts, something causes it to become narrower.
• stifle — to quell, crush, or end by force: to stifle a revolt; to stifle free expression.
• hold down — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
• incarcerate — to imprison; confine.
• chain — A chain consists of metal rings connected together in a line.
• immure — to enclose within walls.
• deprive — If you deprive someone of something that they want or need, you take it away from them, or you prevent them from having it.
• coerce — If you coerce someone into doing something, you make them do it, although they do not want to.
• intern — to restrict to or confine within prescribed limits, as prisoners of war, enemy aliens, or combat troops who take refuge in a neutral country.
• check — Check is also a noun.
• make — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
• compel — If a situation, a rule, or a person compels you to do something, they force you to do it.
• confine — To confine something to a particular place or group means to prevent it from spreading beyond that place or group.
• urge — to push or force along; impel with force or vigor: to urge the cause along.
• oblige — to require or constrain, as by law, command, conscience, or force of necessity.
• cork — Cork is a soft, light substance which forms the bark of a type of Mediterranean tree.
• pressure — the exertion of force upon a surface by an object, fluid, etc., in contact with it: the pressure of earth against a wall.
• bridle — A bridle is a set of straps that is put around a horse's head and mouth so that the person riding or driving the horse can control it.
• disallow — to refuse to allow; reject; veto: to disallow a claim for compensation.
• hog-tie — If someone hog-ties an animal or a person, they tie their legs together, or they tie their arms and legs together.
• deny — When you deny something, you state that it is not true.
• bar — A bar is a place where you can buy and drink alcoholic drinks.
• drive — to send, expel, or otherwise cause to move by force or compulsion: to drive away the flies; to drive back an attacking army; to drive a person to desperation.
• withhold — to hold back; restrain or check.
• impel — to drive or urge forward; press on; incite or constrain to action.
• jail — a prison, especially one for the detention of persons awaiting trial or convicted of minor offenses.
• imprison — to confine in or as if in a prison.
• ban — To ban something means to state officially that it must not be done, shown, or used.
• concuss — to injure (the brain) by a violent blow, fall, etc
• pressurize — to raise the internal atmospheric pressure of to the required or desired level: to pressurize an astronaut's spacesuit before a walk in space.
• bottle up — If you bottle up strong feelings, you do not express them or show them, especially when this makes you tense or angry.
• hold back — to elude or evade by a sudden shift of position or by strategy: to dodge a blow; to dodge a question.
• cool off — If someone or something cools off, or if you cool them off, they become cooler after having been hot.
• hem in — to fold back and sew down the edge of (cloth, a garment, etc.); form an edge or border on or around.
• hold in — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
• shotgun — a smoothbore gun for firing small shots to kill birds and small quadrupeds, though often used with buckshot to kill larger animals.
• force — physical power or strength possessed by a living being: He used all his force in opening the window.
• cheque — A cheque is a printed form on which you write an amount of money and who it is to be paid to. Your bank then pays the money to that person from your account.
• limit — the final, utmost, or furthest boundary or point as to extent, amount, continuance, procedure, etc.: the limit of his experience; the limit of vision.
• restrain — to hold back from action; keep in check or under control; repress: to restrain one's temper.
• restrict — to confine or keep within limits, as of space, action, choice, intensity, or quantity.
• hamper — to hold back; hinder; impede: A steady rain hampered the progress of the work.
• hinder — to cause delay, interruption, or difficulty in; hamper; impede: The storm hindered our progress.