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Disallow vs Restrain - What's the difference?

disallow | restrain |

As verbs the difference between disallow and restrain

is that disallow is to refuse to allow while restrain is   to control or keep in check.

disallow

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To refuse to allow
  • The prisoners were disallowed to contact with a lawyer.
  • To reject as invalid, untrue, or improper
  • The goal was disallowed because the player was offside.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2012 , date=June 19 , author=Phil McNulty , title=England 1-0 Ukraine , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=England will regard it as a measure of justice for Frank Lampard's disallowed goal against Germany in Bloemfontein at the 2010 World Cup - but it was also an illustration of how they rode their luck for long periods in front of a predictably partisan home crowd.}}

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    restrain

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  •   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) 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.}}

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    * restraint

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