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rein as in:  to rein in their activities

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  • She is committed to reining in excessive government infringement of personal freedom.
    reining in = restraining
  • He tries desperately to rein himself in as Mengele arrives.  (source)
    rein = restrain or control
  • He loosened the reins on his horse, who galloped forward over the rocks and sand.  (source)
    reins = leather straps used with a bit to control a horse
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  • I picked up them reins and commenced to whupping on him.  (source)
    reins = straps used to control a horse
  • How can you do anything, unless you can spin round at once when the rein is pressed on your neck?  (source)
    rein = leather strap (that is used with a bit to control a horse or mule)
  • Dark lines appeared on Brom's forehead as he reined Snowfire to a halt.  (source)
    reined = restrained or controlled
  • He reined in the horse and climbed down from the wagon.  (source)
    reined in = restrained (stopped by pulling on straps used to control a horse)
  • "Rein in your beast," he whispered stiffly.  (source)
    Rein in = restrain
  • "Good," Brullo said, reining his horse and surveying whoever had first returned.†  (source)
    reining = restraining or controlling
  • She was an enthusiast, reining in her enthusiasm whenever she felt it becoming too pronounced.†  (source)
    reining in = restraining
  • Six guilty days my wretched mates employ In impious feasting, and unhallowed joy; The seventh arose, and now the sire of gods Rein'd the rough storms; and calm'd the tossing floods: With speed the bark we climb; the spacious sails.†  (source)
    Rein'd = restrained or controlled
  • Up led by thee Into the Heaven of Heavens I have presumed, An earthly guest, and drawn empyreal air, Thy tempering: with like safety guided down Return me to my native element: Lest from this flying steed unreined, (as once Bellerophon, though from a lower clime,) Dismounted, on the Aleian field I fall, Erroneous there to wander, and forlorn.†  (source)
    unreined = not restrained or controlled
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unreined means not and reverses the meaning of reined. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • [of the fairy queen, Queen Mab] Her wagon-spokes are made of spiders' legs. The cover is made of grasshoppers' wings. The reins are of the smallest spider's web.  (source)
    reins = a pair of straps attached to a bit in a horse's mouth and used to control it
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