To prevent/hinder/impede/withhold/restrain/debar/inhibit/prohibit/forbid/interdict, to shut out, be niggardly. To tend or repair or take to oneself a course or aim, aim at/seek/pursue/desire/intend, separate oneself from others, leave/abandon/forsake one's people and remove from them, become angry or exasperated, twist a rope very tightly, crook or curve or bend a thing in the form of an arch, cease to yield milk from the breasts (woman).