Restrain vs Coarctate - What's the difference?
restrain | coarctate |
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)
(anatomy) constricted, narrowed or compressed
(entomology, of a pupa) enclosed in a rigid case
(obsolete) To press together; to crowd.
(obsolete) To restrain; to confine.
As verbs the difference between restrain and coarctate
is that restrain is to control or keep in check while coarctate is (obsolete) to press together; to crowd.As an adjective coarctate is
(anatomy) constricted, narrowed or compressed.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.}}
