containable verb
con·tain
The verb form of containable is contain
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- verb with object containable to hold or include within its volume or area: This glass contains water. This paddock contains our best horses. 1
- verb with object containable to be capable of holding; have capacity for: The room will contain 75 persons safely. 1
- verb with object containable to have as contents or constituent parts; comprise; include. 1
- verb with object containable to keep under proper control; restrain: He could not contain his amusement. 1
- verb with object containable to prevent or limit the expansion, influence, success, or advance of (a hostile nation, competitor, opposing force, natural disaster, etc.): to contain an epidemic. 1
- verb with object containable to succeed in preventing the spread of: efforts to contain water pollution. 1
- verb with object containable Mathematics. (of a number) to be a multiple of; be divisible by, without a remainder: Ten contains five. 1
- verb with object containable to be equal to: A quart contains two pints. 1