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restraining

verb

Present participle of restrain

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The word 'restraining' is correct and can be used in written English.
It is a verb that means to hold back, limit or control something or someone's actions or movements. Example: The police officer used handcuffs to restrain the suspect and prevent him from running away.

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They were sentenced to 150 hours' community service and given a restraining order.

She set great store by "sound money" – that the currency should hold its value through restraining inflationary credit creation and giving priority to productive investment.

Clooney delivers his most nuanced comic performance to date, at last restraining the eyebrow waggles he used to adopt to signal he was being funny.

The other four officers – two uniformed armed response officers and two from the counter-terrorism and specialist firearms unit – were involved in restraining Jordan, 23.

Long the repository of third party moderate hopes, his party was blamed for sustaining the Tories rather than restraining them.

"I don't think there would ever be a good excuse" for restraining someone to an eyebolt for that long, said German, the ex-FBI agent.

A relationship with a Dutch fan ended in her taking out a restraining order against him.

Brian Rice is alleged to have grabbed the woman as she attempted to collect her possessions from the home they had shared and told her that if she ever returned "he would kill me", she said, when requesting a restraining order in 2008.

Hughes appealed unsuccessfully and a second case followed after he was accused of breaching the restraining order.

Brain research on monkeys typically involves appalling suffering, including invasive surgery so that restraining and recording devices can be implanted in their heads (these implants can easily become infected).

But law-enforcement veterans say their use in restraining detainees for hours and their use in interrogations is problematic.

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