restrict

transitive verb

To keep or confine within physical limits.

transitive verb

To prevent or prohibit beyond a certain limit or by restriction: synonym: limit.

To prevent (a person or thing) from passing a certain limit in any kind of action; limit; restrain.

To attach limitations to (a proposition or conception), so that it shall not apply to all the subjects to which it would otherwise seem to apply: as, a restricted sense of a word.

Synonyms Repress, etc. (see restrain), hedge in.

transitive verb

To restrain within bounds; to limit; to confine

adjective

Restricted.

verb

To restrain within bounds; to limit; to confine; as, to restrict worlds to a particular meaning; to restrict a patient to a certain diet.

verb

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

verb

place limits on (extent or access)