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Constrain vs Unstinted - What's the difference?

constrain | unstinted |

As a verb constrain

is to force physically, by strong persuasion or pressurizing; to compel; to oblige.

As an adjective unstinted is

not constrained, not restrained, or not confined.

constrain

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To force physically, by strong persuasion or pressurizing; to compel; to oblige.
  • To keep within close bounds; to confine.
  • To reduce a result in response to limited resources.
  • Derived terms

    * (l)

    unstinted

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not constrained, not restrained, or not confined.
  • * 1874 , , Far From the Madding Crowd , ch. 33:
  • Mr. Coggan poured the liquor with unstinted liberality at the suffering Cain's circular mouth.
  • * 1892 , , Letters of Travel , ch. 1:
  • Wherever we went there was the sun, lavish and unstinted .
  • * 1900 , , Love and Mr. Lewisham , ch. 31:
  • You must have support and belief—unstinted support and belief.
  • * 1921 , , Indiscretions of Archie , ch. 24:
  • The music-publisher had been unstinted in his praise.
  • * 2005 , , " Art: American Renaissance Man," Time , 21 June:
  • Augustus Saint-Gaudens . . .gave the crude, grabbing Republic its lessons in symbolic deportment and visual elocution, and won its unstinted gratitude.

    Synonyms

    * (not constrained) unconstrained, unrestrained