Usually means: Limit or control someone or something.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word Restrict:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. restrict: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. restrict: Merriam-Webster
  3. restrict: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. restrict: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. restrict: Collins English Dictionary
  6. restrict: Vocabulary.com
  7. Restrict, restrict: Wordnik
  8. restrict: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. restrict: Wiktionary
  10. restrict: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. restrict: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. restrict: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. restrict: Dictionary.com
  14. restrict: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Restrict: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Restrict: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. restrict: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. restrict: Rhymezone
  19. restrict: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. restrict: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. restrict: FreeDictionary.org
  22. restrict: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. restrict: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. restrict: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. restrict: Legal dictionary
  4. restrict: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. restrict: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. restrict: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (restrict)

▸ verb:  To restrain within boundaries; to limit; to confine
▸ verb:  (specifically, mathematics) To consider (a function) as defined on a subset of its original domain.
▸ adjective:  (obsolete) Restricted.

Similar:
restrain, cut back, trammel, limit, curtail, bound, confine, qualify, curb, throttle, more...

Opposite:
expand, liberate, permit, allow, free

Phrases:
restrict yourself to something, Republican efforts to restrict voting following the 2020 presidential election, restrict or confine, restrict access, to restrict or burden, more...

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    dark gray,     black,     navy blue,     maroon,     burgundy, more...



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Similar:
restrain, cut back, trammel, limit, curtail, bound, confine, qualify, curb, throttle, more...

Opposite:
expand, liberate, permit, allow, free

Phrases:
restrict yourself to something, Republican efforts to restrict voting following the 2020 presidential election, restrict or confine, restrict access, to restrict or burden, to restrict freedom, more...

Colors:
    dark gray,     black,     navy blue,     maroon,     burgundy, more...



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