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What does constrain mean?

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  1. (transitive) To force physically, by strong persuasion or pressurizing; to compel; to oblige.
  2. (transitive) To keep within close bounds; to confine.
  3. (transitive) To reduce a result in response to limited resources.
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This position goes against all appearances, which constrain our senses to believe that the sun is in continuous movement around the earth.
Some argue that minimum wages constrain job creation by the onus they put on employers.
How do sexism, heterosexism and homophobia work together to constrain sexuality and gender and to punish transgression of these categories?
Help me, O God, to scrub away the guilt, to flush away the regrets, to polish and oil the rusty hinges that constrain my spirit.
Geologists and geophysicists aim to accurately constrain the architecture and facies variations at the lava flow scale.
Knowing some of their properties, such as monotonicity, is often sufficient to constrain the behavior of the variables.

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