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CONFINE
restrict, trammel, limit, bound, confine, throttle
(verb) place limits on (extent or amount or access); “restrict the use of this parking lot”; “limit the time you can spend with your friends”
restrain, confine, hold, constrain
(verb) to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement; “This holds the local until the express passengers change trains”; “About a dozen animals were held inside the stockade”; “The illegal immigrants were held at a detention center”; “The terrorists held the journalists for ransom”
confine
(verb) prevent from leaving or from being removed
confine, detain
(verb) deprive of freedom; take into confinement
enclose, hold in, confine
(verb) close in; “darkness enclosed him”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
confine (third-person singular simple present confines, present participle confining, simple past and past participle confined)
(transitive) To restrict; to keep within bounds; to shut or keep in a limited space or area.
To have a common boundary; to border; to lie contiguous; to touch; followed by on or with.
Noun
confine (plural confines)
(mostly, in the plural) A boundary or limit.
Synonyms
• (limit): border, bound, limit
Source: Wiktionary
Con*fine", v. t. [imp. & p.p. Confined; p.pr. & vb.n. Confining.] Etym: [F. confiner to border upon, LL. confinare to set bounds to; con- + finis boundary, end. See Final, Finish.]
Definition: To restrain within limits; to restrict; to limit; to bound; to shut up; to inclose; to keep close. Now let not nature's hand Keep the wild flood confined! let order die! Shak. He is to confine himself to the compass of numbers and the slavery of rhyme. Dryden. To be confined, to be in childbed.
Syn.
– To bound; limit; restrain; imprison; immure; inclose; circumscribe; restrict.
Con"fine or
Definition: (v. i. To have a common boundary; to border; to lie contiguous; to touch; -- followed by on or with. [Obs.] Where your g;oomy bounds Confine with heaven. Milton. Beywixt hezven and earth and skies there stands a place. Confuining on all three. Dryden.
Con"fine, n.
1. Common boundary; border; limit; -- used chiefly in the plural. Events that came to pass within the confines of Judea. Locke. And now in little space The confines met of emryrean heaven, And of this world. Milton. On the confines of the city and the Temple. Macaulay.
2. Apartment; place of restraint; prison. [Obs.] Confines, wards, and dungeons. Shak. The extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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