Usually means: Limiting movement or action legally.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word restraining:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. restraining: Merriam-Webster
  2. restraining: Collins English Dictionary
  3. restraining: Vocabulary.com
  4. Restraining, restraining: Wordnik
  5. restraining: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. restraining: Wiktionary
  7. Restraining, restraining: Dictionary.com
  8. restraining: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Restraining: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Restraining: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. restraining: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. restraining: FreeDictionary.org
  13. restraining: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. restraining: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. restraining: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (restraining)

▸ noun:  The act by which someone or something is restrained.

Similar:
hold back, keep back, hold, trammel, bound, restrict, keep, constrain, encumber, confine, more...

Types:
physical restraint, chemical restraint, seclusion, verbal restraint, emotional restraint, financial restraint, more...

Phrases:
restraining order, restraining orders, restraining line, temporary restraining order, self restraining, more...

Adjectives:
self, more, such, trade, less, non, temporary, growth, physical, light, unpleasant

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Similar:
hold back, keep back, hold, trammel, bound, restrict, keep, constrain, encumber, confine, more...

Types:
physical restraint, chemical restraint, seclusion, verbal restraint, emotional restraint, financial restraint, more...

Phrases:
restraining order, restraining orders, restraining line, temporary restraining order, self restraining, temporary restraining order (tro), Gmail and the Restraining Orders, restraining devices, more...

Adjectives:
self, more, such, trade, less, non, temporary, growth, physical, light, unpleasant

Colors:
    gray,     black,     dark blue,     charcoal,     gunmetal, more...



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