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Feb 12, 2012
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con•straint



Pronunciation: (kun-strānt'), [key]
—n.
1. limitation or restriction.
2. repression of natural feelings and impulses: to practice constraint.
3. unnatural restraint in manner, conversation, etc.; embarrassment.
4. something that constrains.
5. the act of constraining.
6. the condition of being constrained.
7. Ling.a restriction on the operation of a linguistic rule or the occurrence of a linguistic construction.

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