verb
- Place limits on (extent or access. )
- usage: "restrict the use of this parking lot"; "limit the time you can spend with your friends"
- (v.) ()
- synonyms: limit, circumscribe
- Prevent from leaving or from being removed.
- (v.) ()
- Deprive of freedom; take into confinement.
- synonyms: detain
- To close within bounds, limit or hold back from movement.
- usage: "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"
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