EGAVE

constrained

Academic Word List, sublist 3.

About 5.70 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. verb simple past and past participle of constrain
  2. adjective Kept within close bounds; confined.
  3. adjective Forced; compelled.

Similar words

strained forced affected bound obligate obligated unnatural compelled restricted circumscribed

Often followed by

to by in and the optimization from him or

Word family

constrain constraining constrains constraint constraints

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