confine
to enclose within bounds; limit or restrict: She confined her remarks to errors in the report. Confine your efforts to finishing the book.
to shut or keep in; prevent from leaving a place because of imprisonment, illness, discipline, etc.: For that offense he was confined to quarters for 30 days.
Usually confines. a boundary or bound; limit; border; frontier.
Often confines. region; territory.
Archaic. confinement.
Obsolete. a place of confinement; prison.
Origin of confine
1Other words for confine
Opposites for confine
Other words from confine
- con·fin·a·ble, con·fine·a·ble, adjective
- con·fine·less, adjective
- con·fin·er, noun
- non·con·fin·ing, adjective
- pre·con·fine, verb (used with object), pre·con·fined, pre·con·fin·ing.
- qua·si-con·fin·ing, adjective
- re·con·fine, verb (used with object), re·con·fined, re·con·fin·ing.
- self-con·fin·ing, adjective
- un·con·fin·a·ble, adjective
- un·con·fin·ing, adjective
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British Dictionary definitions for confine
to keep or close within bounds; limit; restrict
to keep shut in; restrict the free movement of: arthritis confined him to bed
(often plural) a limit; boundary
Origin of confine
1Derived forms of confine
- confinable or confineable, adjective
- confineless, adjective
- confiner, noun
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