restrict

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.”

   “It was no less than Valencia deserved after dominating possession in the final 20 minutes although Chelsea defended resolutely and restricted the Spanish side to shooting from long range.”

   “In its lawsuit, the Times said the policy unlawfully restricts essential newsgathering techniques and gives the Pentagon “unfettered” discretion to revoke passes, permitting it to impose the type of “viewpoint-based” press restrictions forbidden by the constitution.”

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

   “If we restrict sine to #92;left#91;-#92;frac#92;pi2,#92;frac#92;pi2#92;right#93;, we can define its inverse.”

adj

1. (obsolete)Restricted.