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Represses vs Restrains - What's the difference?

represses | restrains |

As verbs the difference between represses and restrains

is that represses is third-person singular of repress while restrains is third-person singular of restrain.

represses

English

Verb

(head)
  • (repress)

  • repress

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • The act of repressing.
  • Verb

    (es)
  • To press again.
  • to repress a vinyl record
  • To forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing further.
  • *to repress sedition or rebellion
  • *to repress the first risings of discontent.
  • Hence, to check; to keep back.
  • * Milton
  • Desire of wine and all delicious drinks, / Thou couldst repress .

    Synonyms

    * (forcefully preventing an upheaval from developing) to crush out; to quell; to subdue; to suppress * (to keep back) to restrain; to hold back

    Anagrams

    *

    restrains

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (restrain)
  • Anagrams

    *

    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

    *

    Derived terms

    * restraint

    Anagrams

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