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Added 9 October 2026

restrict

/ɹɪˈstɹɪkt/ verb

Latin root: restrictus Wiktionary

verb Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about restrict at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

To restrain within boundaries; to limit; to confine
After suffering diahrroea, the patient was restricted to a diet of rice, cold meat, and yoghurt.
To consider (a function) as defined on a subset of its original domain.
If we restrict sine to [−π2,π2], we can define its inverse.

adjective

Restricted.

Origin

Borrowed from Latin restrictus, perfect passive participle of restringō (“draw back tightly; restrain, restrict”), from re- (“back, again”) + stringō (“press, tighten, compress”). Doublet of ristretto as an adjective.

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