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English to English noun
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Common boundary; border; limit; -- used chiefly in the plural. |  | source: webster1913 verb
| 2 |
place limits on (extent or access) | | Example: restrict the use of this parking lot
limit the time you can spend with your friends
source: wordnet30
| 3 |
restrict or confine, | | Example: I limit you to two visits to the pub a day
source: wordnet30
| 4 |
prevent from leaving or from being removed | | source: wordnet30
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close in | | Example: darkness enclosed him
source: wordnet30
| 6 |
deprive of freedom; take into confinement | | source: wordnet30
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to close within bounds, limit or hold back from movement | | Example: This holds the local until the express passengers change trains
About a dozen animals were held inside the stockade
The illegal immigrants were held at a detention center
The terrorists held the journalists for ransom
source: wordnet30
| 8 |
To restrain within limits; to restrict; to limit; to bound; to shut up; to inclose; to keep close. | | source: webster1913
| 9 |
To have a common boundary; to border; to lie contiguous; to touch; -- followed by on or with. | | source: webster1913
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