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to restrain / to check / to hold back

why / how / when / what / where

to walk (side part of split character)

to check / to contain / to hold back / to keep within limits / to constrain / to restrain

unable to restrain one's anger (idiom); in a towering rage

to hold back / to check (i.e. to stop sb's advance) / to resist / esp. with negative, irresistible, unstoppable etc

to suppress / to restrain

to impede / to hold sb back

to stop / to contain / to deter