restricts
- 1Third-person singular simple present of restrict.
The lease restricts tenants from subletting their apartments.
Heavy traffic restricts access to the downtown core during rush hour.
Note
The -s ending marks agreement with a single subject in the present: the lease restricts, but the leases restrict. The old adjective restrict is obsolete, so in modern prose this form is always the verb. It also carries the mathematical use, where a writer restricts a function to part of its domain. In everyday prose it usually takes from plus an -ing form, or to: restricts tenants from subletting, restricts its use to members.
restricts is a form of restrict
restrict, verb: To hold something within set boundaries; to limit or confine it. Full entry
- Forms
- restrictrestricts he/she/itrestricting -ing formrestricted past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- restrict → restricts: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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