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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
constrain/kənˈstreɪn/
▶verb
- 1 compel or force towards a course of action.
■ (as adj. constrained) appearing forced.
■ severely restrict the scope, extent, or activity of.
- 2 literary imprison.
- 3 archaic bring about by compulsion.
– derivatives
constrainedly adverb.
constrainedly adverb.
– origin ME: from OFr. constraindre, from L. constringere ‘bind tightly together’.
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