restrict
Verb
Verb Forms: restricted, restricting, restricts
- To keep within certain boundaries or limits; to confine.
- place restrictions on
- place under restrictions; limit access to
- place limits on (extent or access)
- "restrict the use of this parking lot"
- make more specific
- To restrain within boundaries; to limit; to confine
- To consider (a function) as defined on a subset of its original domain.
Adj
- Restricted.
Examples
- After suffering diahrroea, the patient was restricted to a diet of rice, cold meat, and yoghurt.
- His opponent tried to RESTRICT his access to the triple word score by playing defensively.
- If we restrict sine to #92;left#91;-#92;frac#92;pi2,#92;frac#92;pi2#92;right#93;, we can define its inverse.
Origin / Etymology
Borrowed from Latin restrictus, perfect passive participle of restringō (“draw back tightly; restrain, restrict”), from re- (“back, again”) + stringō (“press, tighten, compress”). Doublet of ristretto as an adjective.
Synonyms
bound, confine, curb, curtail, cut back, limit, qualify, restrain, throttle, trammel, circumscribe, coerce, quarantine, repress, withstrain
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 10
restrict: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordrestrict: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
restrict: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary