Constrained - English meaning

adjective

Made or produced by human beings rather than occurring naturally, especially as a copy of something natural.

Usage examples:

Her skin glowed in the artificial light

adjective

Made by people, often as a copy of something natural

Usage examples:

Artificial flowers, artificial grass, an artificial leg, an artificial smile, the actors were encou…

adjective

Not sincere

Usage examples:

Their cheerfulness seemed rather strained and artificial.

adjective

Causing difficulty; hard to do or deal with.

Usage examples:

Some awkward questions

verb

Intimidate (someone), typically into doing something, with stern or abusive words.

Usage examples:

A witness is being browbeaten under cross-examination

verb

To ask or demand continually that someone do something

Usage examples:

He objected that mcdonald was browbeating the witness.

verb

Clear (ground) or destroy (buildings, trees, etc.) with a bulldozer.

Usage examples:

Developers are bulldozing the site

noun

A person who habitually seeks to harm or intimidate those whom they perceive as vulnerable.

Usage examples:

He is a ranting, domineering bully

verb

Seek to harm, intimidate, or coerce (someone perceived as vulnerable).

Usage examples:

Her 11- year-old son has been constantly bullied at school

adjective

Very good; excellent.

Usage examples:

The statue really looked bully

verb

Persuade (an unwilling person) to do something by using force or threats.

Usage examples:

He was coerced into giving evidence

verb

To persuade someone forcefully to do something that he or she may not want to do

Usage examples:

I don’t think anybody should be coerced into leaving., they used threats and coercion to keep the o…

verb

Force or oblige (someone) to do something.

Usage examples:

A sense of duty compelled harry to answer her questions

verb

To force someone to do something

Usage examples:

At school, we were compelled to wear uniforms, which i hated.

adjective

Deliberately created rather than arising naturally or spontaneously.

Usage examples:

Here, however, several contrived situations are grafted into the plot to generate artificial tension.

verb

Create or bring about (an object or a situation) by deliberate use of skill and artifice.

Usage examples:

His opponents contrived a cabinet crisis

noun

A member of any of several cavalry regiments in the british army.

Usage examples:

From the calibre of those we recover we can tell whether they were fired by musketeers, cavalry, dr…

verb

Coerce (someone) into doing something.

Usage examples:

She had been dragooned into helping with the housework

noun

In the past, a soldier who rode on a horse and carried a gun

verb

Operate and control the direction and speed of a motor vehicle.

Usage examples:

He got into his car and drove off

noun

(of a fact or feeling) compel (someone) to act in a particular way, especially one that is considered undesirable or inappropriate.

Usage examples:

He was driven by ambition

verb

To travel in a motor vehicle, esp. as the person who operates it

Usage examples:

[ t ] we drove 40 miles to visit my aunt., [ i ] she drove through pennsylvania to ohio., [ i ] she…

adjective

Feeling or showing embarrassment.

Usage examples:

I felt quite embarrassed whenever i talked to her

verb

Cause (someone) to feel awkward, self-conscious, or ashamed.

Usage examples:

She wouldn't embarrass either of them by making a scene

adjective

Feeling ashamed or shy

Usage examples:

She felt embarrassed about undressing in front of the doctor., [ + to infinitive ] i was too embarr…

noun

Strength or energy as an attribute of physical action or movement.

Usage examples:

He was thrown backwards by the force of the explosion

verb

Make a way through or into by physical strength; break open by force.

Usage examples:

The back door of the bank was forced

noun

A waterfall.

Usage examples:

At the village of west burton, two miles distant, is a fine force

adjective

Obtained or imposed by coercion or physical power.

Usage examples:

There was no sign of a forced entry

verb

Make a way through or into by physical strength; break open by force.

Usage examples:

The back door of the bank was forced

adjective

Involving physical, often violent, strength or power

Usage examples:

There were no obvious signs of forced entry into the house., the plane made a forced landing in den…

adjective

Cautious and having possible reservations.

Usage examples:

He has given a guarded welcome to the idea

verb

Watch over in order to protect or control.

Usage examples:

Two men were left to guard the stockade

verb

Push roughly; jostle.

Usage examples:

They were hissed and hustled as they went in

noun

A state of great activity.

Usage examples:

The hustle and bustle of the big cities

Move or cause to move energetically or busily

verb

Drive, force, or urge (someone) to do something.

Usage examples:

Financial difficulties impelled him to desperate measures

verb

To force someone to do something

Usage examples:

[ + to infinitive ] when i see them eating, i feel impelled to eat, too.

adjective

Unable to act in a relaxed and natural way because of self-consciousness or mental restraint.

Usage examples:

I could never appear nude, i'm far too inhibited

verb

Hinder, restrain, or prevent (an action or process).

Usage examples:

Cold inhibits plant growth

adjective

Not confident enough to say or do what you want

Usage examples:

The presence of strangers made her feel inhibited.

adjective

Done with great effort and difficulty.

Usage examples:

His breathing was laboured

verb

Work hard; make great effort.

Usage examples:

They laboured from dawn to dusk

adjective

Needing a lot of effort, often because someone is tired

Usage examples:

Her breathing was heavy and laboured., a laboured joke

adjective

Behaving in a specified way.

Usage examples:

Bad-mannered

adjective

Having ways of behaving toward people

Usage examples:

The children are well mannered., he continued to write, but his mannered prose was not well received.

verb

Make (someone) legally or morally bound to do something.

Usage examples:

Doctors are obliged by law to keep patients alive while there is a chance of recovery

verb

Move or cause to move into a position of contact with something by exerting continuous physical force.

Usage examples:

He pressed his face to the glass

noun

A device for applying pressure to something in order to flatten or shape it or to extract juice or oil.

Usage examples:

A flower press

noun

A forcible enlistment of men, especially for the navy.

Usage examples:

Any english-speaking, able-bodied, man on leave in a port might find himself swept up in the press.

noun

Continuous physical force exerted on or against an object by something in contact with it.

Usage examples:

The gate was buckling under the pressure of the crowd outside

verb

Attempt to persuade or coerce (someone) into doing something.

Usage examples:

It might be possible to pressure him into resigning

verb

Produce or maintain raised pressure artificially in (a gas or its container).

Usage examples:

The mixture was pressurized to 1,900 atmospheres

verb

To keep the air pressure in a submarine, plane, etc. at a level that is suitable for breathing

Usage examples:

He was pressurized into signing the agreement.

verb

Exert force on (someone or something) in order to move them away from oneself.

Usage examples:

She pushed her glass towards him

noun

An act of pushing someone or something in order to move them away from oneself.

Usage examples:

He closed the door with a push

verb

Move with force, "he pushed the table into a corner"

noun

A track or set of tracks made of steel rails along which passenger and freight trains run; a railway.

Usage examples:

His uncle works on the railroad

verb

Rush or coerce (someone) into doing something.

Usage examples:

She hesitated, unwilling to be railroaded into a decision

noun

A system of transportation using special vehicles whose wheels turn on metal bars fixed to the ground, or a particular company using such a system

Usage examples:

Railroad tracks, a railroad station, the pennsylvania railroad, we feel that our client was railroa…

adjective

Restrained or oppressed.

Usage examples:

Repressed indigenous groups

verb

Subdue (someone or something) by force.

Usage examples:

The uprisings were repressed

adjective

Having feelings that you do not express

Usage examples:

Repressed anger/sexuality, english people are notoriously repressed and don't talk about their feel…

verb

Need for a particular purpose.

Usage examples:

Three patients required operations

adjective

Slow to reveal emotion or opinions.

Usage examples:

He is a reserved, almost taciturn man

verb

Retain for future use.

Usage examples:

Roll out half the dough and reserve the other half

adjective

Tending to keep your feelings or thoughts private rather than showing them

Usage examples:

Marcus is more reserved than his brother.

adjective

Characterized by reserve or moderation; unemotional or dispassionate.

Usage examples:

His restrained, gentlemanly voice

verb

Prevent (someone or something) from doing something; keep under control or within limits.

Usage examples:

The need to restrain public expenditure

adjective

Not revealing one's thoughts or feelings readily.

Usage examples:

She was extremely reticent about her personal affairs

adjective

Unwilling to speak about your thoughts or feelings

Usage examples:

At first she was reticent, but later she relaxed and was more forthcoming., due to his reticence, l…

Aware of yourself as an individual or of your own being

adjective

Feeling undue awareness of oneself, one's appearance, or one's actions.

Usage examples:

I feel a bit self-conscious parking my scruffy old car

adjective

(especially of an action or intention) deliberate and with full awareness, especially affectedly so.

Usage examples:

Her self-conscious identification with the upper classes

noun

A heavy, slow-moving vehicle with a roller, used to flatten the surfaces of roads during construction.

Usage examples:

After each truckload of earth fell, a steamroller flattened it

verb

(of a government or other authority) forcibly pass (a measure) by restricting debate or otherwise overriding opposition.

Usage examples:

The government's trying to steamroller a law through

noun

A vehicle whose wheels are large, heavy cylinders that roll over a road surface to make it flat

Usage examples:

He steamrollered the bill through congress.

adjective

(of a manner of talking or writing) stiff and self-conscious or unnatural.

Usage examples:

We made stilted conversation

adjective

(of behavior, speech, or writing) too formal and not smooth or natural

Usage examples:

Legal language tends to be very stilted.

adjective

(of a person's behaviour or way of speaking or writing) too formal and not smooth or natural

Usage examples:

He writes in a formal and somewhat stilted style., the dialogue sounded stilted and unnatural, perh…

adjective

Showing signs of nervous tension or tiredness.

Usage examples:

Jean's pale, strained face

verb

Force (a part of one's body or oneself) to make an unusually great effort.

Usage examples:

I stopped and listened, straining my ears for any sound

adjective

Nervous, worried, or having problems

Usage examples:

She had a strained expression on her face., a strained knee

adjective

Disapproving involving force and threats to get people to do something

Usage examples:

The curfew is just another of the city's strong-arm policies.

adjective

Having difficulty in speaking, usually because of being nervous

Usage examples:

I was practically tongue-tied.

adjective

Causing or feeling anxiety; troubled or uncomfortable.

Usage examples:

She felt guilty now and a little uneasy

adjective

Contrary to the ordinary course of nature; abnormal.

Usage examples:

Death by unnatural causes

adjective

Not found in nature; artificial

Usage examples:

Nothing unnatural or polluting can be used., the recordings have an unnatural sound.

verb

Try earnestly or persistently to persuade (someone) to do something.

Usage examples:

He urged her to come and stay with us

noun

A strong desire or impulse.

Usage examples:

He felt the urge to giggle

verb

To encourage someone strongly to do something or to ask that something be done

Usage examples:

Party leaders urged her to run for congress., a human/natural urge, sometimes i get an urge to go s…

adjective

Made of wood.

Usage examples:

A wooden toy

adjective

Made of wood

Usage examples:

They ate at a long wooden table., she’s a wooden speaker.