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Restrict

verb

(past & past part. restricted; pres. part. restricting)

Place restrictions on. Synonyms: curb, curtail, cut back.

Place under restrictions; limit access to.

Place limits on (extent or access). Synonyms: bound, confine, limit, restrain, throttle, trammel. "Limit the time you can spend with your friends"

Make more specific. Synonym: qualify.

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... I urge, he must have discovered how useful it is to restrict the field of vision now and then; to be ...

— Fountains In The Sand - Rambles Among The Oases Of Tunisia • Norman Douglas

... there is no harm in parlor dancing. How many parents are able to restrict their children to parlor dancing only? ...

— From the Ball-Room to Hell • T. A. Faulkner

... Prussian government will act in the future as it has done in the past, by sparing no efforts to make the Frederico-Gulielma the head of the Prussian system in fact as well as in name. Nevertheless, it must be admitted that the present hard times and the unsettled state of society in Berlin tend to restrict the number of students. The remarkable contrast presented in the sudden growth of the Leipsic University shows how even matters of education are influenced by social and economic laws. This Saxon city seems marked out by Nature for a seat of learning. It combines almost all attractions and advantages. ...

— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, April, 1876. • Various

... Liberty so much desired by all wise & good Men. A Non Importation of British Goods is (with a few Exceptions) universally thought a salutary and an efficatious Measure; and in order to effectuate such a Measure the yeomanry in the Country (upon whom under God we are to depend) are signing agreements to restrict themselves from purchasing & consuming them. We applaud and at the same time [are] animated by the patriotick Spirit of our Sister Colonies. Such an union we believe was little expected by Lord North and we have Reason to hope therefore that he has not thought of making any Preparation ...

— The Writings of Samuel Adams, vol. III. • Samuel Adams

... which the saloon power can count on with reasonable certainty, when any measure affecting its interests is to be acted upon, or when persons are to be elected who can enforce or ignore laws enacted to restrict the liquor evil. This argument presented to the political parties is usually irresistible; they simply permit the saloon element to dictate its policy and its candidates. And against this army of home destroyers, this solid battalion of evil, this ...

— The Arena - Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891 • Various

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