Direct and Restrain

Direct

Direct verb - To cause to move to a central point or along a restricted pathway.

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Restrain and direct are semantically related In some cases you can use "Restrain" instead a verb "Direct".

Restrain verb - To keep from exceeding a desirable degree or level (as of expression).

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Direct and restrain are semantically related in hold back topic. Sometimes you can use "Direct" instead a verb "Restrain".

power	direct power	restrain power
hero	direct hero	restrain hero
man	direct man	restrain man
people	direct people	restrain people
Other words: someone, powers, members, blasts.

Can also be a case of lousy blessing in that Pandora was gifted by all the gods to be the perfect womannote Greek style -then Zeus blessed her with endless curiosity, without the brains or common sense to restrain or direct it.

Source: Blessed With Suck / Mythology
This is a standard weapon of some ninja in Naruto, though it's rarely used to cut anything, just to restrain opponents and direct/redirect projectiles; Sasuke gets some good use out of them in the earlier parts of the series.

Source: Razor Floss

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