Restrain vs Stayer - What's the difference?
restrain | stayer |
To control or keep in check.
To deprive of liberty.
To restrict or limit.
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One who, or that which, upholds or supports; a prop.
One who, or that which, stays, stops, or restrains.
(sports, informal) An athlete, horse, etc. with staying power.
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As a verb restrain
is to control or keep in check.As a noun stayer is
one who, or that which, upholds or supports; a prop.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.}}
