To Contain

1. (transitive) To hold inside.
2. (transitive) To include as a part.
3. (transitive) To put constraint upon; to restrain; to confine; to keep within bounds.
4. (mathematics, of a set etc., transitive) To have as an element or subset.
5. (obsolete, intransitive) To restrain desire; to live in continence or chastity.

(hold inside): enclose, inhold

(include as part): comprise, embody, incorporate, inhold

(limit by restraint): control, curb, repress, restrain, restrict, stifle

(include as part): exclude, omit

(limit by restraint): release, vent

This is generally a stative verb that rarely takes the continuous inflection. See Category:English stative verbs