Engineers installed tuned dampers to restrain the bridge's vibrations, which had grown strong enough in high winds to alarm pedestrians.
工程师安装了调谐阻尼器来抑制桥梁振动——强风中的振动此前已大到令行人不安。
Which choice best defines “restrain”?
C — Control, hold back. “restrain” means control, hold back.
Which word means “control, hold back”?
A — restrain. “restrain” means control, hold back.
restrain — control, hold back. In Chinese: 抑制，约束.
restrain is pronounced /rɪˈstreɪn/.
Engineers installed tuned dampers to restrain the bridge's vibrations, which had grown strong enough in high winds to alarm pedestrians. (工程师安装了调谐阻尼器来抑制桥梁振动——强风中的振动此前已大到令行人不安。)
curb, suppress, check — all close in meaning to restrain (control, hold back).
release, unleash — each the opposite of restrain (control, hold back).
Yes. restrain is on the SAT Prep Easy list — mid-frequency academic words that do get tested. The Digital SAT does not test vocabulary in isolation; words like this one are tested through Words in Context questions, where you choose the word that completes a passage most logically and precisely.
re(again and again)+strain(tighten)