CONSTRAINING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does constraining mean? 

• CONSTRAINING (adjective)
  The adjective CONSTRAINING has 1 sense:

1. restricting the scope or freedom of action

  Familiarity information: CONSTRAINING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONSTRAINING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Restricting the scope or freedom of action

Synonyms:

confining; constraining; constrictive; limiting; restricting

Similar:

restrictive (serving to restrict)

 Context examples 

“Do you suppose,” said I, constraining myself to be very temperate and quiet with him, on account of Agnes, “that I regard Miss Wickfield otherwise than as a very dear sister?”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

NOTE(S): The DefinedObservationResult class can be used to represent defined ranges for contingencies by constraining the result attribute from ANY to IVLPQ, for instance, or any other range value.

(Defined Observation Result, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

I might have had more difficulty in constraining myself to be silent under his words, if I had had less difficulty in impressing upon Peggotty (who was only angry on my account, good creature!) that we were not in a place for recrimination, and that I besought her to hold her peace.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)