Questions about example sentences with, and the definition and usage of "Restrain"

A: To hold back,keep in place, or control.

“I was going to do something bad and had to restrain myself.”

“The wild animal had to be restrained with chains.”

A: 1. To stop someone from moving.

The police restrained the man, so he could not run.

A: To hold back from doing something.

A: Restrain means to hold back or stop

A: Restrain is a verb that is usually followed by the word "from" and it means to hold back somebody or something from an action or something; to keep somebody or something under control. .

For example:
1. The new teacher has difficulty in restraining the students from talking during class.

2. I must learn to restrain myself from saying what comes to my mind first.

As for your sentence, I think you want to say:

Because of the Ukraine conflict, plenty of the European countries restrain from fighting the Russian troops.

A: thank you😊

A: thank you!

A: the ice cream looked so good I had to restrain from eating all of it

A: "I will restrain you if you do not control yourself."

A: Both words can mean 'holding something/someone back' but restrain refers to 'preventing something' while 'constrain' means 'restricting or limiting something'.

A: Restrain - to physically put limits on something. Restrict - to put conditions on something. "Karen had to be restrained because she would not follow the face mask restrictions.

A: Restrain is used to describe the act of physically holding someone captive. It may or may not involve the use of force.
Example: The doctor used a straightjacket to restrain him for his own protection.

Detain is similar to restrain but it's typically used to describe the act of holding someone captive with the intent of preventing them from proceeding to a given destination. While detaining someone can involve the use of force, in my opinion, it's usually implied that force wasn't needed.
Example: He was detained at the security checkpoint because they suspected that he was a terrorist and wanted to prevent him from boarding the plane. He refused to comply so the security team were forced to restrain him.

Hold back may be used both figuratively and literally.
When used figuratively, hold back is a phrase used to describe the act of partially completing an action or choosing to complete an action poorly.
Example: Tell me everything. Don't hold back.
Example: During the tennis match, his performance was passable but he didn't play well enough to win. He must've been holding back for some reason.
When used in the literal sense, hold back is the act of physically holding something back.
Example: He used the sandbags to hold back the flood water that was approaching his house.

Repress is really a more specialized way of talking about suppression. To suppress something in general means to push something down in a figurative sense. It isn't used when talking about physically pushing something down. One wouldn't suppress the trash in to a trash can to fit more in it. Suppression always refers to something figurative such as emotions, behavior, beliefs, ideas, movements, etc.
Suppress can be further specialized in to two more terms, however.
1. Repress - suppress can be used to mean the same thing but repress is typically used when talking about emotions, beliefs, or ideas.
Example: He repressed his anger.
2. Oppress - suppress can also be used here but oppress typically means to inhibit the prosperity or happiness of a particular group of people.
Example: During the second World War, Hitler oppressed the Jews.

A: To restrain: 主に行動と感情を抑えること
I barely restrained myself from shouting at the poor messenger.
The police officer restrained his anger as he tried to reason with the noisy child.
He tied him up with rope to restrain him from escaping.
よく利用している形式：restrain from~
名詞：restraint/restraints

To confine: 何かの範囲（時間、程度、スペース）に限定されていること。ある場所に閉じ込めること。
For this project I was confined to the 2-day deadline so I had to throw together something quickly.
My mother confined me to my bedroom when she learned I had insulted my teacher.
This problem isn't confined to the young.
よく利用している形式: confine to〜
名詞：confine/confines

To constrain: 〜することを人に強いること, 行動を抑えて制約すること
Because of my blunder, my boss constrained me to resign.
He felt constrained to tell his girlfriend about the passing of his best friend.
The activity of the society was seriously constrained by the government.
よく利用している形式: constrain to〜
名詞：constraint/constraints

A: Restrain is used more in the sense of preventing an action

Constrain is used more in the sense of placing limits, restrictions, or controls on an action

from -http://www.learnersdictionary.com/qa/constrain-and-restrain

A: @Rory_Lee very good! Another way to say this is “I encourage them to refrain from speaking Korean while they learn how to speak English.”