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Reframe vs Restrain - What's the difference?

reframe | restrain |

As verbs the difference between reframe and restrain

is that reframe is to frame again while restrain is   to control or keep in check.

reframe

English

Alternative forms

* re-frame

Verb

(refram)
  • To frame again.
  • The shop was reframing the painting.
  • To redescribe, from a different perspective; to relabel.
  • The military reframed tedium as duty.

    restrain

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  •   To control or keep in check.
  •   To deprive of liberty.
  •   To restrict or limit.
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  • , 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.}}

    Synonyms

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    Derived terms

    * restraint

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