limit
/ˈlɪm.ɪt/ verb B1- To restrict; to circumscribe; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound, to set boundaries. · We need to limit the power of the executive.· I'm limiting myself to two drinks tonight.
- To have a limit in a particular set. · The sequence limits on the point a.
He/she/it limits · Past limited · Past participle limited · -ing form limiting
Verb forms
- Base form
- limit
- He/she/it
- limits
- Past
- limited
- Past participle
- limited
- -ing form
- limiting
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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"Even my limited sense of humour could evolve a better joke than that.
"For a mixture of the modern and the mediæval, of the practical and of the wildly fanciful, I think this is surely the limit," said he.
The vocabulary of Bradshaw is nervous and terse, but limited.
“My rings were put on his finger; but when it came to the wedding ring,” he held out his muscular hand, “you can see for yourselves that I had struck the limit.
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