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Restraining vs Forbidding - What's the difference?

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Restraining is a related term of forbidding.


As verbs the difference between restraining and forbidding

is that restraining is while forbidding is .

As nouns the difference between restraining and forbidding

is that restraining is the act by which someone or something is restrained while forbidding is the act by which something is forbidden; a prohibition.

As an adjective forbidding is

highly unpleasant or disagreeable.

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;

    forbidding

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • highly unpleasant or disagreeable
  • threatening or menacing

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is forbidden; a prohibition.
  • * William Shakespeare
    • But all these poor forbiddings could not stay him.