(~s, ~ing, ~ed)
1.
If you ~ someone, you stop them from doing what they intended or wanted to do, usually by using your physical strength.
Wally gripped my arm, partly to ~ me and partly to reassure me...
VERB: V n
2.
If you ~ an emotion or you ~ yourself from doing something, you prevent yourself from showing that emotion or doing what you wanted or intended to do.
She was unable to ~ her desperate anger...
Gladys wanted to ask, ‘Aren’t you angry with him?’ But she ~ed herself from doing so.
VERB: V n, V n from -ing/n
3.
To ~ something that is growing or increasing means to prevent it from getting too large.
The radical 500-day plan was very clear on how it intended to try to ~ inflation...
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VERB: V n