Restrain vs Discourage - What's the difference?
restrain | discourage | Related terms |
To control or keep in check.
To deprive of liberty.
To restrict or limit.
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To extinguish the courage of; to dishearten; to depress the spirits of; to deprive of confidence; to deject.
* Bible, Col. iii. 21
To persuade somebody not to do something.
* Abraham Lincoln
Lack of courage
Restrain is a related term of discourage.
In lang=en terms the difference between restrain and discourage
is that restrain is to restrict or limit while discourage is to persuade somebody not to do something.As verbs the difference between restrain and discourage
is that restrain is to control or keep in check while discourage is to extinguish the courage of; to dishearten; to depress the spirits of; to deprive of confidence; to deject.As a noun discourage is
lack of courage.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.}}
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* * * * * * English transitive verbsdiscourage
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Verb
(discourag)- Don't be discouraged by the amount of work left to do: you'll finish it in good time.
- Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged .
- Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can.