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Adjective limiting has 2 senses
- confining, constraining, constrictive, limiting, restricting - restricting the scope or freedom of action
Antonym: unrestrictive (indirect, via restrictive)
- limiting - strictly limiting the reference of a modified word or phrase; "the restrictive clause in `Each made a list of the books that had influenced him' limits the books on the list to only those particular ones defined by the clause"
Antonym: unrestrictive (indirect, via restrictive)
Noun limiting has 1 sense
- modification, qualifying, limiting - the grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies the meaning of the phrase
--1 is a kind of grammatical relation
--1 has particulars: restrictiveness; apposition
Verb limit has 3 senses
- restrict, restrain, trammel, limit, bound, confine, throttle - place limits on (extent or access); "restrict the use of this parking lot"; "limit the time you can spend with your friends"
--1 is one way to control, hold in, hold, contain, check, curb, moderate
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP
- limit, circumscribe, confine - restrict or confine, "I limit you to two visits to the pub a day"
--2 is one way to decrease, lessen, minify
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- specify, set, determine, fix, limit - decide upon or fix definitely; "fix the variables"; "specify the parameters"
--3 is one way to choose, take, select, pick out
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
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