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Restraining vs Obstructive - What's the difference?

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Restraining is a related term of obstructive.


As a verb restraining

is .

As a noun restraining

is the act by which someone or something is restrained.

As an adjective obstructive is

causing obstructions.

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;

    obstructive

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Causing obstructions.
  • * I wanted to see his report on me, but my manager was being obstructive .

    • Derived terms

    * obstructively * obstructiveness