All contain synonyms
conΒ·tain
C c verb contain
- include β to contain, as a whole does parts or any part or element: The package includes the computer, program, disks, and a manual.
- incorporate β to form into a legal corporation.
- accommodate β If a building or space can accommodate someone or something, it has enough room for them.
- involve β to include as a necessary circumstance, condition, or consequence; imply; entail: This job involves long hours and hard work.
- have β Usually, haves. an individual or group that has wealth, social position, or other material benefits (contrasted with have-not).
- stop β to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
- collect β If you collect a number of things, you bring them together from several places or from several people.
- curb β If you curb something, you control it and keep it within limits.
- cool β Something that is cool has a temperature which is low but not very low.
- harness β the combination of straps, bands, and other parts forming the working gear of a draft animal. Compare yoke1 (def 1).
- restrain β to hold back from action; keep in check or under control; repress: to restrain one's temper.
- rein β Often, reins. a leather strap, fastened to each end of the bit of a bridle, by which the rider or driver controls a horse or other animal by pulling so as to exert pressure on the bit.
- stifle β to quell, crush, or end by force: to stifle a revolt; to stifle free expression.
- check β Check is also a noun.
- cork β Cork is a soft, light substance which forms the bark of a type of Mediterranean tree.
- seat β something designed to support a person in a sitting position, as a chair, bench, or pew; a place on or in which one sits.
- subsume β to consider or include (an idea, term, proposition, etc.) as part of a more comprehensive one.
- comprehend β If you cannot comprehend something, you cannot understand it.
- hold β to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
- comprise β If you say that something comprises or is comprised of a number of things or people, you mean it has them as its parts or members.
- hog-tie β If someone hog-ties an animal or a person, they tie their legs together, or they tie their arms and legs together.
- compose β The things that something is composed of are its parts or members. The separate things that compose something are the parts or members that form it.
- smother β to stifle or suffocate, as by smoke or other means of preventing free breathing.
- repress β to keep under control, check, or suppress (desires, feelings, actions, tears, etc.).
- restrict β to confine or keep within limits, as of space, action, choice, intensity, or quantity.
- bottle up β If you bottle up strong feelings, you do not express them or show them, especially when this makes you tense or angry.
- hold in β to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
- keep back β to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
- simmer down β to cook or cook in a liquid at or just below the boiling point.
- cover β If you cover something, you place something else over it in order to protect it, hide it, or close it.
- surround β to enclose on all sides; encompass: She was surrounded by reporters.
- cheque β A cheque is a printed form on which you write an amount of money and who it is to be paid to. Your bank then pays the money to that person from your account.
- control β Control of an organization, place, or system is the power to make all the important decisions about the way that it is run.
- hold back β to elude or evade by a sudden shift of position or by strategy: to dodge a blow; to dodge a question.
- inhibit β to restrain, hinder, arrest, or check (an action, impulse, etc.).
- suppress β to put an end to the activities of (a person, body of persons, etc.): to suppress the Communist and certain left-leaning parties.
- limit β the final, utmost, or furthest boundary or point as to extent, amount, continuance, procedure, etc.: the limit of his experience; the limit of vision.
- delimit β If you delimit something, you fix or establish its limits.
- confine β To confine something to a particular place or group means to prevent it from spreading beyond that place or group.
- take in β the act of taking.