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Restraining vs Constraining - What's the difference?

restraining | constraining |

As verbs the difference between restraining and constraining

is that restraining is while constraining is .

As nouns the difference between restraining and constraining

is that restraining is the act by which someone or something is restrained while constraining is the act by which something is constrained.

restraining

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which someone or something is restrained.
  • * George Meredith
    • She had the privilege of a soul beyond our minor rules and restrainings to speak her wishes to the true wife of a mock husband—no husband; less a husband than this shadow of a woman a wife, she said;

    constraining

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is constrained.
  • * 1996 , Mike Michael, Constructing Identities: The Social, the Nonhuman and Change
    • In contrast to the (to be sure, productive) shapings and constrainings of human identities in the sociotechnical network, here we have an expansion of identity.