restrict

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To limit something or keep it within certain bounds.

   The new law restricts the sale of alcohol to people over eighteen.

2. 2
   verb

   To limit someone to only one thing or place.

   After the operation, she was restricted to a simple diet for a week.

Borrowed from Latin restrictus, perfect passive participle of restringō (“draw back tightly; restrain, restrict”), from re- (“back, again”) + stringō (“press, tighten, compress”). Doublet of ristretto as an adjective.

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