EGAVE

restrict

Academic Word List, sublist 2.

About 6.32 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. verb To restrain within boundaries; to limit; to confine
    After suffering diahrroea, the patient was restricted to a diet of rice, cold meat, and yoghurt.
  2. verb To consider (a function) as defined on a subset of its original domain.
    If we restrict sine to [−π2,π2], we can define its inverse.
  3. adjective Restricted.

Similar words

restrain limit confine curtail cut back trammel bound qualify curb throttle

Often followed by

the their ourselves our its access or his it themselves

Word family

restricted restricting restriction restrictions restrictive restrictively restricts

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