place limits on (extent or access); restrict the use of this parking lot; limit the time you can spend with your friends
[ Syn: restrict , restrain , trammel , limit , bound , throttle ]
restrict or confine, I limit you to two visits to the pub a day
[ Syn: limit , circumscribe ]
prevent from leaving or from being removed
close in; darkness enclosed him
deprive of freedom; take into confinement
[ Syn: detain ]
to close within bounds, limit or hold back from movement; 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