Confront vs Restrain - What's the difference?
confront | restrain |
To stand or meet facing, especially in competition, hostility or defiance; to come face to face with; to oppose; to challenge.
To deal with.
To something bring face to face with.
To come up against; to encounter.
To engage in confrontation.
To set a thing side by side with; to compare.
To put a thing facing to; to set in contrast to.
To control or keep in check.
To deprive of liberty.
To restrict or limit.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-05-17
, author=George Monbiot, authorlink=George Monbiot
, title=Money just makes the rich suffer
, volume=188, issue=23, page=19
, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
In lang=en terms the difference between confront and restrain
is that confront is to put a thing facing to; to set in contrast to while restrain is to restrict or limit.As verbs the difference between confront and restrain
is that confront is to stand or meet facing, especially in competition, hostility or defiance; to come face to face with; to oppose; to challenge while restrain is to control or keep in check.confront
English
Verb
(en verb)- We should confront him about the missing money.
Derived terms
* confrontation * confrontational * confronter * confrontmentrestrain
English
Verb
(en verb)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.}}