Usually means: Limit possibilities or freedom of action.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. constrain: Merriam-Webster
  2. constrain: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. constrain: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. constrain: Collins English Dictionary
  5. constrain: Vocabulary.com
  6. Constrain, constrain: Wordnik
  7. constrain: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. constrain: Wiktionary
  9. constrain: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. constrain: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. constrain: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Constrain, constrain: Dictionary.com
  13. constrain: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Constrain: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Constrain: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. constrain: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. constrain: Rhymezone
  18. constrain: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. constrain: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. constrain: FreeDictionary.org
  21. constrain: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. constrain: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. constrain: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. constrain: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. constrain: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. constrain: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. constrain: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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verb:  (transitive) To force physically, by strong persuasion or pressuring; to compel; to oblige.
verb:  (transitive) To keep within close bounds; to confine.
verb:  (transitive) To reduce a result in response to limited resources.

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