meaning of contain2
1. To hold within fixed limits; to comprise; to include; to inclose; to hold.
2. To have capacity for; to be able to hold; to hold; to be equivalent to; as, a bushel contains four pecks.
3. To put constraint upon; to restrain; to confine; to keep within bounds.
4. To restrain desire; to live in continence or chastity.
5. hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of; "Arrest the downward trend"; "Check the growth of communism in Sout East Asia"; "Contain the rebel movement"; "Turn back the tide of
">communism"
Related Words
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