Retaining vs Restraining - What's the difference?
retaining | restraining |
Of or pertaining to something that retains something else, as with a retaining wall.
The act by which someone or something is restrained.
* George Meredith
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
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(head)restraining
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(en noun)- 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;