Detain vs Constrain - What's the difference?
detain | constrain |
Keep (someone) from proceeding by holding them back or making claims on their attention.
To put under custody.
To keep back or from; to withhold.
* Jeremy Taylor
To force physically, by strong persuasion or pressurizing; to compel; to oblige.
To keep within close bounds; to confine.
To reduce a result in response to limited resources.
In transitive terms the difference between detain and constrain
is that detain is to keep back or from; to withhold while constrain is to reduce a result in response to limited resources.As verbs the difference between detain and constrain
is that detain is keep (someone) from proceeding by holding them back or making claims on their attention while constrain is to force physically, by strong persuasion or pressurizing; to compel; to oblige.detain
English
Verb
(en verb)- Detain not the wages of the hireling.