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restrict

/ɹɪˈstɹɪkt/
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.

Synonymsbound, circumscribe, coerce, curb, limit, repress
adjective
  1. Restricted.

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