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Restrain vs Restraining - What's the difference?

restrain | restraining |

As verbs the difference between restrain and restraining

is that restrain is   to control or keep in check while restraining is .

As a noun restraining is

the act by which someone or something is restrained.

restrain

English

Verb

(en verb)
  •   To control or keep in check.
  •   To deprive of liberty.
  •   To restrict or limit.
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    • , 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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    * * * * * * English transitive verbs

    restraining

    English

    Verb

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    • 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;