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verb ADV. greatly, seriously, severely | further The government is considering new laws which will further restrict people's access to firearms. | effectively | unduly, unnecessarily | apparently | deliberately VERB + RESTRICT attempt to, seek to, try to | tend to Having small children tends to restrict your freedom. PREP. to I'm restricting myself to one glass of wine a day. PHRASES an attempt to restrict sth attempts to restrict the sale of alcohol | measures to restrict sth
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
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verb
confine:
We will restrict him to his apartment.
Simple Definitions
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Phrase(s): restrict someone or something to someone or something
to limit someone or something to someone or something; to confine someone or something to someone or something. (The first something may typically refer to a choice or selection.) • When choosing team members, we are restricting them to people they already know. • We restricted the choices to Bill, Bob, or Ted.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs
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restrict yourself to sth
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to limit yourself to one particular thing or activity
• If I'm driving, I restrict myself to one glass of wine.
Cambridge-Phrasal Verbs