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Synonyms for restriction

The synonym for restriction recorded in this bank is confinement, in the sense "the act of keeping something within specified bounds (by force if necessary)". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 3, Ridgeline · 1 sense · noun

The synonym for restriction

confinementnoun, in the sense "the act of keeping something within specified bounds (by force if necessary)"

One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day restriction is audited in a second meaning.

The sensenounTier 3, RidgelineActions

the act of keeping something within specified bounds (by force if necessary)

The restriction of the infection to a focal area.

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The true synonym

confinement

Same sentence, swapped: The confinement of the infection to a focal area.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where restriction stands in the sentence above.

suppression
damper
boycott

Where restriction turns up in the game

restriction is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. Everything on it is a stored field, not a run-time composition.

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