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Restrain vs Unleashable - What's the difference?

restrain | unleashable |

As a verb restrain

is   to control or keep in check.

As an adjective unleashable is

unable to be leashed, or restrained.

restrain

English

Verb

(en verb)
  •   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) 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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    Derived terms

    * restraint

    Related terms

    * constrain

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    unleashable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Unable to be leashed, or restrained
  • *{{quote-news, 1988, January 15, Bill Wyman, The four phases of Pink Floyd, Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=
  • Able to be unleashed
  • *{{quote-book, 2001, Darin Barney, Prometheus Wired citation
    • , passage=And when the efficiency or supply of coal, gas, and water came into doubt, the realm below was once again scoured for unleashable energy.}}