There is a plan to restrict the use of cars in the city center.
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Restrict
//ɹɪˈstɹɪkt//
Synonyms for "restrict" (181 found)
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Strong matches (54)
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1 entriesRelated terms
3 entriesderived
9 entrieshas context
2 entriesmanner of
2 entriesrelated to
10 entriesTranslations
70 translations across 34 languages.
Arabic
2 entries- حَدَّ verb (to restrain within bounds)
- حَدَّدَ verb (to restrain within bounds)
Asturian
1 entries- restrinxir verb (to restrain within bounds)
Belarusian
2 entries- абмежава́ць verb (to restrain within bounds)
- абмяжо́ўваць verb (to restrain within bounds)
Bulgarian
2 entries- огранича́ verb (to restrain within bounds)
- огранича́вам verb (to restrain within bounds)
Catalan
1 entries- restringir verb (to restrain within bounds)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 制限 verb (to restrain within bounds)
- 限制 verb (to restrain within bounds)
Czech
2 entries- omezit verb (to restrain within bounds)
- omezovat verb (to restrain within bounds)
Danish
1 entries- begrænse verb (to restrain within bounds)
Dutch
2 entries- begrenzen verb (to restrain within bounds)
- beperken verb (to restrain within bounds)
Finnish
2 entries- pysyä jossakin verb (to restrain within bounds)
- rajoittaa verb (to restrain within bounds)
French
2 entries- limiter verb (to restrain within bounds)
- restreindre verb (to restrain within bounds)
Galician
1 entries- restrinxir verb (to restrain within bounds)
German
3 entries- begrenzen verb (to restrain within bounds)
- beschränken verb (to restrain within bounds)
- restringieren verb (to restrain within bounds)
Hebrew
1 entries- הִגְבִּיל verb (to restrain within bounds)
Hungarian
4 entries- korlátoz verb (to restrain within bounds)
- leszűkít verb (to restrain within bounds)
- megszorít verb (to restrain within bounds)
- szűkít verb (to restrain within bounds)
Irish
1 entries- teorannaigh verb (to restrain within bounds)
Italian
2 entries- limitare verb (to restrain within bounds)
- restringere verb (to restrain within bounds)
Japanese
1 entries- 制限する verb (to restrain within bounds)
Korean
1 entries- 제한하다 verb (to restrain within bounds)
Macedonian
2 entries- ограничи verb (to restrain within bounds)
- ограничува verb (to restrain within bounds)
Māori
4 entries- aukati verb (to restrain within bounds)
- hamaruru verb (to restrain within bounds)
- nati verb (to restrain within bounds)
- rāhui verb (to restrain within bounds)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- begrense verb (to restrain within bounds)
Polish
2 entries- ograniczać verb (to restrain within bounds)
- ograniczyć verb (to restrain within bounds)
Portuguese
2 entries- limitar verb (to restrain within bounds)
- restringir verb (to restrain within bounds)
Romanian
2 entries- a limita verb (to restrain within bounds)
- a restrânge verb (to restrain within bounds)
Russian
2 entries- ограни́чивать verb (to restrain within bounds)
- ограни́чить verb (to restrain within bounds)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- ograničávati verb (to restrain within bounds)
- ogràničiti verb (to restrain within bounds)
- огра̀ничити verb (to restrain within bounds)
- огранича́вати verb (to restrain within bounds)
Slovak
4 entries- obmedziť verb (to restrain within bounds)
- obmedzovať verb (to restrain within bounds)
- ohraničiť verb (to restrain within bounds)
- ohraničovať verb (to restrain within bounds)
Slovene
2 entries- omejevati verb (to restrain within bounds)
- omejiti verb (to restrain within bounds)
Spanish
2 entries- cortapisar verb (to restrain within bounds)
- restringir verb (to restrain within bounds)
Swedish
2 entries- begränsa verb (to restrain within bounds)
- inskränka verb (to restrain within bounds)
Turkish
2 entries- kısıtlamak verb (to restrain within bounds)
- sınırlamak verb (to restrain within bounds)
Ukrainian
4 entries- обме́жити verb (to restrain within bounds)
- обме́жувати verb (to restrain within bounds)
- обмежо́вувати verb (to restrain within bounds)
- омежува́ти verb (to restrain within bounds)
Vietnamese
1 entries- hạn chế verb (to restrain within bounds)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
He feels this new law will restrict his freedom.
Source: tatoeba (289922)
Sperm bank regulations restrict a given donor to making sperm donations at only one facility and restrict the number of children that each donor can "father".
Source: tatoeba (1425813)
Please restrict your orders to what is in our catalog.
Source: tatoeba (3516375)
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