单词 | limit |
例句 | limit noun 1.•the city limits:boundary, border, bound, frontier, edge, demarcation line | perimeter, outside, confine, periphery, margin, rim. 2.•a limit of 4,500 people:maximum, ceiling, limitation, upper limit | restriction, check, control, restraint. 3.•resources are stretched to the limit:utmost, breaking point, greatest extent. 4.informal •I've reached my limit ! one's/the breaking point, the last straw | informal the end, it, one's wits' end, one's/the max.▶verb •the pressure to limit costs:restrict, curb, cap, check, hold in check, restrain, put a brake on, freeze, regulate, control, govern, delimit. PHRASES off limits •access to their mother's workshop was strictly off limits:out of bounds, forbidden, banned, restricted, unacceptable, taboo. |
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