limitest

Verb

limit (third-person singular simple present limits, present participle limiting, simple past and past participle limited)

1. (transitive) To restrict; to circumscribe; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound, to set boundaries.
   • We need to limit the power of the executive.

   Synonyms:

   check, straiten, behedge, blunt, crimp, foreclose, delay, difficult, diminish, forestay

   Antonyms:

   expand, release

2. (intransitive) To have a limit in a particular set.
   • The sequence limits on the point a.
3. (obsolete) To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region.
   • a limiting friar

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