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"constrained him" is correct and usable in written English.
It is a verb phrase that means to restrict, limit, or restrain someone or something. Example: Due to his injuries, the doctor constrained him from participating in the marathon. In this sentence, "constrained him" refers to the doctor's decision to limit or restrict the person from participating in the marathon due to their injuries.
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Other people's rules constrained him.
The Constitution constrained him from candor.
Perhaps that's why he wrote in prose; the pentameter would undoubtedly have constrained him.
Asked if the legal doubts of the attorney general constrained him from making a commitment to the US, Blair said "No".
In a phone call, Dr. Owens said that he did not know Mr. Knoop and that patient confidentiality constrained him from speaking.
"I have a fairly low voice, and a fairly stocky shape, and in rep, you're immediately the middle-aged man, or the mayor, or a businessman, or a crook...".. He is wary of always being typecast, though keen to stress that his association with the role of Poirot has never constrained him.
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The picture's frame constrains him.
Kim Il Sung of N. Korea to attack, rather than constrain him.
Maybe the only thing that will constrain him is his own Cabinet.
No hardliners in his ruling coalition would constrain him, he vowed.
But his role as chairman of the budget committee constrains him.
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