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Definition of Restrict
1. Verb. Place restrictions on. "Curtail drinking in school"
Generic synonyms: Circumscribe, Confine, Limit
Specialized synonyms: Abridge, Immobilise, Immobilize
Derivative terms: Curb, Restriction, Restrictive
2. Verb. Place under restrictions; limit access to. "This substance is controlled"
Generic synonyms: Check, Contain, Control, Curb, Hold, Hold In, Moderate
Antonyms: Derestrict
Derivative terms: Restriction, Restrictive
3. Verb. Place limits on (extent or access). "Limit the time you can spend with your friends"
Specialized synonyms: Reduce, Tighten, Tie, Gate, Draw A Line, Draw The Line, Mark Off, Mark Out, Harness, Rein, Rule, Baffle, Regulate, Cramp, Halter, Hamper, Strangle, Constrain, Stiffen, Tighten, Tighten Up, Clamp Down, Crack Down, Inhibit, Constrain, Cumber, Encumber, Restrain
Generic synonyms: Check, Contain, Control, Curb, Hold, Hold In, Moderate
Derivative terms: Bound, Bound, Limit, Limitation, Limitation, Limitation, Limitation, Limiter, Restrainer, Restriction, Restriction, Restrictive, Trammel
4. Verb. Make more specific. "Qualify these remarks"
Generic synonyms: Modify
Derivative terms: Qualification, Qualification, Quality
Definition of Restrict
1. a. Restricted.
2. v. t. To restrain within bounds; to limit; to confine; as, to restrict worlds to a particular meaning; to restrict a patient to a certain diet.
Definition of Restrict
1. Verb. To restrain within bounds; to limit; to confine; as, to restrict worlds to a particular meaning; to restrict a patient to a certain diet. ¹
2. Verb. (context: specifically mathematics) To consider (a function) as defined on a subset of its original domain. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Restrict
1. to keep within certain boundaries [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Restrict
Literary usage of Restrict
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"and is designed to restrict all the departments of the government in questioning
certain principles there announced. If it establishes the validity of the ..."
2. The woman in white by Wilkie Collins (1871)
"Do not, I implore you, force me into action— ME, the Man of Action—when it is
the cherished object of my ambition to be passive, to restrict the vast reach ..."
3. The Journal of Heredity by American Genetic Association (1916)
"Laws to restrict Miscegenation Twenty-eight states have laws or constitutional
provisions forbidding the intermarriage of negroes and white persons, ..."
4. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1919)
"The lease did not specify any particular part of the land, nor restrict the lessee
to the use of any particular number of acres. In November, 1904, HH Sapp ..."
5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"But from the outset the Tuscans did not cosmography, "Delia Composizione del
Mondo", restrict themselves to erotic poetry, but sang of re- Most of the prose ..."
6. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"The tendency was generally to restrict the function of the Messiah in this world
and dilate upon the eon of the next world at the termination of the ..."
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