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How to sign: place limits on (extent or access)
"restrict the use of this parking lot"; "limit the time you can spend with your friends";
Similiar / Same: limit, throttle, restrain, confine, restrict, bound
Categories: check, contain, control, curb, hold, hold in, moderate
Within this category: baffle, clamp down, draw the line, gate, hamper, inhibit, mark off, reduce, restrain, rule, stiffen, tie
How to sign: a restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner)
Similiar / Same: shackle, hamper, trammels, bond
Categories: constraint, restraint
Within this category: ball and chain, fetter, handcuffs, iron
How to sign: catch in or as if in a trap
"The men trap foxes";
Similiar / Same: snare, trap, entrap, ensnare
Within this category: gin
