Restrain vs Confines - What's the difference?
restrain | confines |
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)
The borders or limits of an area.
Elements that restrain someone.
The scope or range of a subject.
(confine)
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As verbs the difference between restrain and confines
is that restrain is To control or keep in check while confines is third-person singular of confine.As a noun confines is
the borders or limits of an area.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.}}