Meaning & use
Constraining
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Limiting or restricting someone's freedom, options, or ability to act.
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Tight budgets have been constraining the department's ability to hire new staff.
She felt the rigid schedule was constraining her creativity as a writer.
A note on using this word
Often used as an adjective too, as in 'a constraining set of rules,' describing something that limits rather than enables.
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Words with an opposite meaning
freeingliberating
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