restricting

Definitions

Putting a limit on; keeping under control.

Preventing someone or something from moving or acting freely.

Serving to restrict or limit the scope or extent of something.

Examples

The new policy is restricting access to the company's private servers.

She felt that the tight corset was restricting her ability to breathe comfortably.

The government is restricting the import of certain goods to protect local businesses.

Synonyms

limiting constraining curbing hampering restraining inhibiting confining

Antonyms

expanding liberating freeing allowing permitting broadening unleashing