restrict

To keep or confine within physical limits.

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.

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