Restrain vs Forbid - What's the difference?
restrain | forbid |
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)
To disallow; to proscribe.
* 1908 ,
To deny, exclude from, or warn off, by express command.
* Shakespeare
To oppose, hinder, or prevent, as if by an effectual command.
* Dryden
(obsolete) To accurse; to blast.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To defy; to challenge.
In transitive terms the difference between restrain and forbid
is that restrain is To restrict or limit while forbid is to oppose, hinder, or prevent, as if by an effectual command.restrain
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- Smoking in the restaurant is forbidden .
- the Mole recollected that animal-etiquette forbade any sort of comment on the sudden disappearance of one's friends at any moment, for any reason or no reason whatever.
- Have I not forbid her my house?
- An impassable river forbids the approach of the army.
- a blaze of glory that forbids the sight
- He shall live a man forbid .
