in check en · ADP
Meanings
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Under restraint or control.
It was a sudden meeting, and one in which rapture was kept well in check by pain.
1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter XI, in Jane Eyre. […], volume III, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 267:Scott also has schizoaffective bipolar disorder, a mental illness she keeps in check with a low dose of Zyprexa.
2008 December 3, Kate Torgovnick, “Why Do the Mentally Ill Die Younger?”, in Time:The old feelings, so religiously held in check, were stimulated to rebelliousness, though they did not show themselves in any direct manner as yet.
1880, Thomas Hardy, chapter 37, in The Trumpet Major:I . . . espied a small cave, excellent suited to our defence and where two determined men might hold in check a whole army.
1921, Jeffery Farnol, chapter 30, in Martin Conisby's Vengeance:
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Translations (5)
ru под контролем (phrase) · fi kurissa (phrase) · es en jaque (phrase) · es en regla (phrase) · es como es debido (phrase)