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restrainings

restrainings is the plural of restraining.

Meaning of restraining

Noun

restraining (plural restrainings)

  1. The act by which someone or something is restrained.
    • She had the privilege of a soul beyond our minor rules and restrainings to speak her wishes to the true wife of a mock husband—no husband; less a husband than this shadow of a woman a wife, she said; […]1895, George Meredith, The Amazing Marriage

Questions about restrainings

What is restrainings the plural of?
Restrainings is the plural of restraining.

Words near restrainings in the dictionary

  1. restraineth
  2. restraining
  3. restraining order
  4. restraining orders
  5. restrainingly
  6. restrainings
  7. restrainment
  8. restrainments
  9. restrains
  10. restraint
  11. restraint of trade

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