#emotional restraint
- To dam up — To dam, to stop, to dyke, or to bar the flow of a water body or a fluid by means of a physical obstacle (sluice gate, dam, levee); by extension or figuratively, it means to curb, to restrain, to put an end to, or to hold back a violent urge, a strong emotion, or a wave of social protests.
- Damming — The act of damming or restraining and its result; the archaic or regional operation of stopping, dyking, or barring a watercourse using sluice gates or levees; figuratively, it represents the action of curbing, withholding, or calming a violent urge or a flow of emotional states.
- Curbed — Having been stopped, barred, or dammed with a physical obstacle (of waters); figuratively, having been curbed, restrained, controlled, or calmed from its free and violent progression (of feelings, impulses, or crowds).