transcription, транскрипция: [ kənstreɪn ]
( constrains, constraining, constrained)
1.
To constrain someone or something means to limit their development or force them to behave in a particular way. ( FORMAL )
Women are too often constrained by family commitments and by low expectations...
VERB : be V-ed
2.
If you feel constrained to do something, you feel that you must do it, even though you would prefer not to.
For some reason he felt constrained to lower his voice.
PHRASE : V inflects , PHR to-inf