Definitions for contained

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contained con·tained

Spelling: [kuh n-teynd]

IPA: /kənˈteɪnd/

Contained is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 496 anagrams from letters in contained (acdeinnot).

Definitions for contained

adjective

1. showing restraint or calmness; controlled; poised:

verb (used with object)

1. to hold or include within its volume or area:
2. to be capable of holding; have capacity for:
3. to have as contents or constituent parts; comprise; include.
4. to keep under proper control; restrain:
5. to prevent or limit the expansion, influence, success, or advance of (a hostile nation, competitor, opposing force, natural disaster, etc.):
6. to succeed in preventing the spread of:
7. Mathematics. (of a number) to be a multiple of; be divisible by, without a remainder:
8. to be equal to:

Origin of contained

First recorded in 1400-50, contained is from the late Middle English word conteynyd. See contain, -ed²

Examples for contained

The letter, hastening to its destination, had contained the stolen money.

The library was to remain absolutely untouched and what it contained was Linda's.

Six lines would have contained all that is in it to the purpose of my story.

You may be wondering what work of monumental consequence is contained within these gilded pages.

The Ebola epidemic is containable, but it has not been contained.

Many of the answers to how we make the world better for children—and better for all of us—are contained here.

Coca-Cola was a wildly popular drink and hangover remedy because, well, it contained cocaine.

What warning is contained in the Conclusion of the Commandments?

All such information should, as I have said, be contained in the "history" of Scripture.

According to court testimony by the lead NCIS investigator, it contained various mobile phones and even valuable letters.