restrict

present singular third person restricts · participle present restricting · participle past restricted · past restricted

1. To restrain within boundaries; to limit; to confine

   After suffering diahrroea, the patient was restricted to a diet of rice, cold meat, and yoghurt.

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   It was no less than Valencia deserved after dominating possession in the final 20 minutes although Chelsea defended resolutely and restricted the Spanish side to shooting from long range.

   2011 September 28, Jon Smith, “Valencia 1 - 1 Chelsea”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 04 Feb 2023

   In its lawsuit, the Times said the policy unlawfully restricts essential newsgathering techniques and gives the Pentagon “unfettered” discretion to revoke passes, permitting it to impose the type of “viewpoint-based” press restrictions forbidden by the constitution.

   2026 March 20, “US judge blocks Pentagon’s restrictions on press after New York Times lawsuit”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 21 Mar 2026

   Synonyms: limit, bound, circumscribe, withstrain, restrain, repress, curb, coerce

2. specificallymathematicsTo consider (a function) as defined on a subset of its original domain.

   If we restrict sine to #92;left#91;-#92;frac#92;pi2,#92;frac#92;pi2#92;right#93;, we can define its inverse.

comparative more restrict · superlative most restrict

1. obsoleteRestricted.