restrained

adj
/ɹɪˈstɹeɪnd/

Definitions

  1. Held back, limited, kept in check or under control.

    • He greeted her for the first time in three years with a restrained embrace.
  2. Proscribed, restricted.

  3. simple past and past participle of restrain

    • He was restrained by the straight jacket.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at restrained. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at restrained. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at restrained

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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