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v. To compel by physical, moral, or circumstantial force; oblige: felt constrained to object. See Synonyms at force.

v. To keep within close bounds; confine: a life that had been constrained by habit to the same few activities and friends.

v. To inhibit or restrain; hold back: "Failing to control the growth of international debt will also constrain living standards” ( Ronald Brownstein).

v. To produce in a forced or inhibited manner.

v. to force physically, by strong persuasion or pressurizing; to compel; to oblige

v. to keep within close bounds; to confine

v. to reduce a result in response to limited resources

v. To secure by bonds; to chain; to bond or confine; to hold tightly; to constringe.

v. To bring into a narrow compass; to compress.

v. To hold back by force; to restrain; to repress.

v. To compel; to force; to necessitate; to oblige.

v. To violate; to ravish.

v. To produce in such a manner as to give an unnatural effect.

In general, to exert force, physical or moral, upon, either in urging to action or in restraining from it; press; urge; drive; restrain.

Hence To urge with irresistible power, or with a force sufficient to produce the effect; compel; necessitate; oblige.

To confine or hold by force; restrain from escape or action; repress or compress; bind.

To check; repress; hinder; deter.

To force.

In mech.: To prevent the occurrence of (motion), except in a particular direction: as, the relative motions of the parts of any machine are always constrained.

To prevent the operation of the motion of (a material point or body), except in a particular and definite manner: as, to constrain a part of a mechanism.

v. hold back

v. restrict

"The Obama administration's new nuclear arms reduction agreement with Russia has been beset by a chorus of conservative claims that it will "constrain" U.S. efforts to develop missile defenses, in the words of Charles Krauthammer, among many others."

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