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To contain means to serve as a vessel or holder for something, to be made up of different things or the act of restraining yourself or your emotions. (verb)

An example of contain is when a house has furniture within it.
An example of contain is when a book has five different short stories within it.
An example of contain is when you want to cry but don't.

See contain in Webster's New World College Dictionary