Restrict

Quick meaning: Restrict is a verb meaning To restrain within boundaries; to limit; to confine.

Meaning

To restrain within boundaries; to limit; to confine.

More Meanings

1. (specifically, mathematics) To consider (a function) as defined on a subset of its original domain.
2. (obsolete) Restricted.

Example Sentences

After suffering diahrroea, the patient was restricted to a diet of rice, cold meat, and yoghurt.

If we restrict sine to #92;left#91;-#92;frac#92;pi2,#92;frac#92;pi2#92;right#93;, we can define its inverse.

It was no less than Valencia deserved after dominating possession in the final 20 minutes although Chelsea defended resolutely and restricted the Spanish side to shooting from long range.

In its lawsuit, the Times said the policy unlawfully restricts essential newsgathering techniques and gives the Pentagon “unfettered” discretion to revoke passes, permitting it to impose the type of “viewpoint-based” press restrictions forbidden by the constitution.

Word Forms

• restricts
• restricting
• restricted

Synonyms for restrict

Depending on context, synonyms include limit, bound, circumscribe, withstrain, restrain, repress.

Antonyms for restrict

Common opposites include derestrict.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include restrain, limit, confine, curtail, cut back, trammel.

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