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Retaining vs Restraining - What's the difference?

retaining | restraining |

As verbs the difference between retaining and restraining

is that retaining is while restraining is .

As an adjective retaining

is of or pertaining to something that retains something else, as with a retaining wall.

As a noun restraining is

the act by which someone or something is restrained.

retaining

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Of or pertaining to something that retains something else, as with a retaining wall.
  • Verb

    (head)
  • 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;