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Restricting

To restrain within boundaries; to limit; to confine

📖 Definitions of "Restricting"

verb

1
To restrain within boundaries; to limit; to confine
"After suffering diahrroea, the patient was restricted to a diet of rice, cold meat, and yoghurt."
2
(specifically) To consider (a function) as defined on a subset of its original domain.

adjective

5 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.

Word	Definition
constrictive	That constricts, or is accompanied by constriction.
restrictivenoun	Confining, limiting, containing within defined bounds.
limitingnoun	A limitation.
constrainingnoun	The act by which something is constrained.
confining	limiting; restrictive

Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.

Word	Definition
confining	limiting; restrictive
restrictivenoun	Confining, limiting, containing within defined bounds.
limitingnoun	A limitation.
constrainingnoun	The act by which something is constrained.
constrictive	That constricts, or is accompanied by constriction.
restrictivenessnoun	The state of being restrictive.
restrictionnoun	A regulation or limitation that restricts.
constraintnoun	Something that constrains; a restriction.
restrainingnoun	The act by which someone or something is restrained.
restraintnoun	(uncountable) control or caution; reserve
limitationnoun	The act of limiting or the state of being limited.
limitednoun	With certain (often specified) limits placed upon it.
limitverb	(transitive) To restrict; to circumscribe; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound, to set boundaries.
reductionnoun	The act, process, or result of reducing.
reducing	(chemistry) That causes reduction.
narrowingnoun	The process of becoming narrow.
curtailmentnoun	The act of curtailing.
curtailingnoun	A cutting short; truncation.
reduceverb	(transitive) To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower.
narrowverb	(transitive) To reduce in width or extent; to contract.