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Sparing vs Restraining - What's the difference?

sparing | restraining |

As verbs the difference between sparing and restraining

is that sparing is while restraining is .

As an adjective sparing

is prudent and restrained in the use of resources; careful, economical or frugal.

As a noun restraining is

the act by which someone or something is restrained.

sparing

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Adjective

(en adjective)
  • prudent and restrained in the use of resources; careful, economical or frugal

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    restraining

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  • 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;