Usually means: Imposing limits on actions, possibilities.
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  1. constraining: Merriam-Webster
  2. constraining: Collins English Dictionary
  3. constraining: Vocabulary.com
  4. Constraining, constraining: Wordnik
  5. constraining: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. constraining: Wiktionary
  7. Constraining, constraining: Dictionary.com
  8. Constraining: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. constraining: Rhymezone
  10. Constraining: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. constraining: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. constraining: FreeDictionary.org
  13. constraining: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. constraining: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. constraining: Legal dictionary

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  1. constraining: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (constraining)

▸ noun:  The act by which something is constrained.

Similar:
constrictive, restrictive, restricting, confining, limiting, constrainment, fettering, constriction, obstriction, straitjacketing, more...

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more, less, self, voluntary, mutual, thirst, non, forcible, external, inherently, hidden

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Similar:
constrictive, restrictive, restricting, confining, limiting, constrainment, fettering, constriction, obstriction, straitjacketing, more...

Types:
physical, logical, mathematical, linguistic, social, economic, political, cultural, historical, geographical, more...

Adjectives:
more, less, self, voluntary, mutual, thirst, non, forcible, external, inherently, hidden

Colors:
    gray,     black,     dark brown,     navy blue,     charcoal, more...



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