Definitions for constrain

constrain con·strain

Spelling: [kuh n-streyn]
IPA: /kənˈstreɪn/

Constrain is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 632 anagrams from letters in constrain (acinnorst).

Definitions for constrain

verb (used with object)

  1. to force, compel, or oblige:
  2. to confine forcibly, as by bonds.
  3. to repress or restrain:

Origin of constrain

1275-1325; Middle English constrei(g)nen Anglo-French, Middle French constrei(g)n- (stem of constreindre) Latin constringere. See con-, strain

Examples for constrain

But only the vision of the Love that was willing to be broken for us can constrain us to be willing for that.

Masters were forbidden to constrain slaves to marry against their will.

The hand of the bat has become so modified as to constrain the bat to live in the air.

This argument is vital to a larger argument: Do we obey the rules set up to constrain government or not?

Would you profit by the authority you possess over her to constrain her will?

But when you can sing like that, how can you constrain that voice and possibly be comfortable in the back?

Isha Aran at Jezebel worries that the show “glorif[ies] the way religion can constrain people.”

I beg your pardon, but my brother; he shall not constrain me.

President Obama is at least as eager to constrain Medicare spending as Republicans, possibly even more so.

The response will be to get more security, to constrain how freely ambassadors move around.

Word Value for constrain
Scrable

11

Words with friends

14

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