restrict
verb
- = limit, fix, regulate, specify, curb, ration, keep within bounds or limits •
a move to restrict the number of students on campus at any one time
opposites: free, allow, encourage, promote, permit, foster, widen, broaden - = hamper, impede, handicap, restrain, cramp, inhibit, straiten •
The shoulder straps restrict movement.
- = hamper, contain, bound, confine, circumscribe, hem in, demarcate, clip someone's wings •
The fence would restrict public access.
'restrict' in Other Languages
- British English: restrict
If you restrict something, you put a limit on it to stop it becoming too large.Laws were passed to restrict foreign imports.rɪˈstrɪkt VERB - Arabic: يُقَيِّدُ
- Brazilian Portuguese: restringir
- Chinese: 限制
- Croatian: ograničiti
- Czech: omezit omezovat
- Danish: begrænse
- Dutch: beperken
- European Spanish: restringir
- Finnish: rajoittaa
- French: restreindre
- German: einschränken
- Greek: περιορίζω
- Italian: limitare
- Japanese: 制限する
- Korean: 제한하다
- Norwegian: begrense
- Polish: ograniczyć ograniczać
- Portuguese: restringir
- Romanian: a limita
- Russian: ограничивать
- Spanish: restringir
- Swedish: begränsa
- Thai: จำกัด
- Turkish: sınırlamak
- Ukrainian: обмежувати обмежити
- Vietnamese: hạn chế
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