restrict

[Re*strict·]

To restrict is to limit. If you want to eat more healthily, you might restrict, or limit, yourself to eating only foods containing fruits and vegetables – like carrot cake and apple pie.

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Restricted.

Verb
make more specific; "qualify these remarks"

Verb
place limits on (extent or access); "restrict the use of this parking lot"; "limit the time you can spend with your friends"

Verb
place restrictions on; "curtail drinking in school"

Verb
place under restrictions; limit access to; "This substance is controlled"


a.
Restricted.

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.


Restrict

Re*strict" , a. [L. restrictus, p. p. of restringere. See Restrain.] Restricted. [Obs.]

Restrict

Re*strict", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Restricted; p. pr. & vb. n. Restricting.] To restrain within bounds; to limit; to confine; as, to restrict worlds to a particular meaning; to restrict a patient to a certain diet. Syn. -- To limit; bound; circumscribe; restrain; repress; curb; coerce.

Restricted.

To restrain within bounds; to limit; to confine; as, to restrict worlds to a particular meaning; to restrict a patient to a certain diet.

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Usage Examples

As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.

It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics, because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth, while investments in education, infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase it, creating more good jobs and new wealth for all of us.

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Other Usage Examples

Everyone prefers some foods over others, but some adults take this tendency to an extreme. These people tend to prefer the kinds of bland food they may have enjoyed as children - such as plain or buttered pasta, macaroni and cheese, cheese pizza, French fries and grilled cheese sandwiches - and to restrict their eating to just a few dishes.

The hope of Internet anarchists was that repressive governments would have only two options: accept the Internet with its limitless possibilities of spreading information, or restrict Internet access to the ruling elite and turn your back on the 21st century, as North Korea has done.

But the general welfare must restrict and regulate the exertions of the individuals, as the individuals must derive a supply of their strength from social power.

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