Some synonyms for "restrict" include limit, confine, restrain, and curtail.
There are many synonyms for the word decrease, among which are: diminish, curtail, wane, lessen, decline, dwindle, reduction, abate, decrement, subside, lower, declension or contraction.
Examples of abstract/concrete noun combinations are:birthday cake; the noun 'birthday' is an abstract noun as a word for a concept; the noun 'cake' is a concrete noun as a word for a type of food.card game; the noun 'card' is a concrete noun as a word for a small piece of cardboard marked with characters; the noun 'game' is an abstract noun as a word for a concept.computer science; the concrete noun 'computer' as a word for an electronic unit; the noun 'science' as a word for a concept.marriage license; the noun 'marriage' is an abstract noun as a word for a concept; the noun license is a concrete noun as a word for a document.
The word carrot is a common noun, a singular, concrete noun. Carrot is also an exact noun for the general noun vegetable.
The noun 'up' is a singular, common, noun. The noun 'up' is a concrete noun as a word for a physical direction. The noun 'up' is an abstract noun as a word for a positive situation or period of time.
He had to curtail his anger
He decided to curtail his spending in order to save money for a vacation.
We must curtail our trip because it has become to expensive.
To curtail can mean to cut short, or cut off a part of something. For example, to curtail a trip would mean to cut short a trip. A synonym to curtail is to cut back.
curtail means to limit I don't want to stop drinking altogether, I just want to curtail it a bit. Since the economy has plunged, I've had to curtail my non-essential spending. If I don't curtail my eating, I'll have to buy bigger clothes.
If you curtail something, you reduce or limit it. The government plans to curtail the number of troops being sent overseas.
Curtail is a verb meaning to limit, shorten or reduce i.e. In order to lose weight, one must curtail their food intake.
Smoking cigarettes will curtail a persons life expectancy.
It can be revived at any moment and used to curtail free speech.
Here are a couple of example: My doctor suggested I should curtail my drinking. We had to curtail our plans to climb the mountain because of the snow storm. The police asked us to curtail the party because we were making too much noise.
He was told to curtail his blanking activities by the WikiAnswers supervisor. The headmaster was trying to curtail the amount of smoking that took place near to bike sheds. Their efforts to curtail spending didn't succeed and they were broke four days before the end of the holiday.
We will have to curtail our spending so the funding will last to the end of the year.