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1. Restricting the scope or freedom of action
   "Restricting the routing information you receive has obvious consequences"
   - confining, constraining, constrictive, limiting

1. Place restrictions on
   "restrict drinking in school"
   - curtail, curb, cut back
    
2. Place under restrictions; limit access to
    
3. Place limits on (extent or access)
   "restrict the use of this parking lot"
   - restrain, trammel, limit, bound, confine, throttle
    
4. Make more specific
   "restrict these remarks"
   - qualify

See also: restriction, restrictive

Type of: check, circumscribe, confine, contain, control, curb, hold, hold in, limit, moderate, modify

Antonym: derestrict

Encyclopedia: Restrict