verb
- Keep under control; keep in check.
- usage: "suppress a smile"; "Keep your temper"; "keep your cool"
- Place limits on (extent or access. )
- usage: "restrict the use of this parking lot"; "limit the time you can spend with your friends"
- To close within bounds, limit or hold back from movement.
- usage: "This holds the local until the express passengers change trains"; "About a dozen animals were held inside the stockade"; "The illegal immigrants were held at a detention center"; "The terrorists held the journalists for ransom"
- Hold back.
- To compel or deter by or as if by threats.
- synonyms: intimidate, restrain
adjective
- Cool and formal in manner.
- synonyms: reticent, unemotional
- Under restraint.
- Marked by avoidance of extravagance or extremes.
- usage: "moderate in his demands"; "restrained in his response"
- synonyms: moderate
- Not showy or obtrusive.
- usage: "clothes in quiet good taste"
- synonyms: quiet
- Prudent.
- usage: "guarded optimism"
- synonyms: guarded
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