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")
limit, circumscribe, confine -- (restrict or confine, "I limit you to two visits to the pub a day")
confine -- (prevent from leaving or from being removed)
enclose, hold in, confine -- (close in; darkness enclosed him")
confine, detain -- (deprive of freedom; take into confinement)
restrain, confine, hold -- (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")
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