Impede vs Restrain - What's the difference?
impede | restrain |
to get in the way of; to hinder
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)
As verbs the difference between impede and restrain
is that impede is to get in the way of; to hinder while restrain is to control or keep in check.impede
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* assist, help * expede (obsolete) * expediterestrain
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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.}}