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To draw back again; to hold back from acting, proceeding, or advancing, either by physical or moral force, or by any interposing obstacle; to repress or suppress; to keep down; to curb.

• Actuation
  A bringing into action; movement.
• Against
  Abreast; opposite to; facing; towards; as, against the mouth of a river; -- in this sense often preceded by over.
• Interpose
  To place between; as, to interpose a screen between the eye and the light.
• Moralizer
  One who moralizes.
• Suppressing
  of Suppress
• Actinograph
  An instrument for measuring and recording the variations in the actinic or chemical force of rays of light.
• Actinozoon
  One of the Actinozoa.
• Actinula
  A kind of embryo of certain hydroids (Tubularia), having a stellate form.
• Actress
  A female actor or doer.
• Actuator
  One who actuates, or puts into action.
• Againstand
  To withstand.
• Interposer
  One who, or that which, interposes or intervenes; an obstacle or interruption; a mediator or agent between parties.
• Morally
  In a moral or ethical sense; according to the rules of morality.
• Suppress
  To overpower and crush; to subdue; to put down; to quell.
• Actinoid
  Having the form of rays; radiated, as an actinia.
• Action
  A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another; the effect of power exerted on one body by another; agency; activity; operation; as, the action o
• Actual
  Involving or comprising action; active.
• Actuose
  Very active.
• Againward
  Back again.

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