Detain vs Restrain - What's the difference?
detain | restrain |
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 control or keep in check.
To deprive of liberty.
To restrict or limit.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-05-17
, author=George Monbiot, authorlink=George Monbiot
, title=Money just makes the rich suffer
, volume=188, issue=23, page=19
, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
In transitive terms the difference between detain and restrain
is that detain is to keep back or from; to withhold while restrain is To restrict or limit.As verbs the difference between detain and restrain
is that detain is keep (someone) from proceeding by holding them back or making claims on their attention while restrain is To control or keep in check.detain
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(en verb)- Detain not the wages of the hireling.
restrain
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(en verb)citation, passage=In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […] The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra-wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.}}