confine

[Con*fineĀ·]

Confine is all about setting limits. If you are confined to the house, it means you can't leave it. If you're really sick, you might be confined to your bed.

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To restrain within limits; to restrict; to limit; to bound; to shut up; to inclose; to keep close.

Verb
place limits on (extent or access); "restrict the use of this parking lot"; "limit the time you can spend with your friends"

Verb
restrict or confine, "I limit you to two visits to the pub a day"

Verb
to close within bounds, limit or hold back from 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 h

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prevent from leaving or from being removed

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deprive of freedom; take into confinement

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Verb
close in or confine


v. t.
To restrain within limits; to restrict; to limit; to bound; to shut up; to inclose; to keep close.

v. i.
To have a common boundary; to border; to lie contiguous; to touch; -- followed by on or with.

n.
Common boundary; border; limit; -- used chiefly in the plural.

n.
Apartment; place of restraint; prison.


Confine

Con*fine" , v. t. [imp. & p.p. Confined ; p.pr. & vb.n. Confining.] [F. confiner to border upon, LL. confinare to set bounds to; con- + finis boundary, end. See Final, Finish.] 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!
He is to confine himself to the compass of numbers and the slavery of rhyme.
To be confined, to be in childbed. Syn. -- To bound; limit; restrain; imprison; immure; inclose; circumscribe; restrict.

Confine

Con"fine or (); 277), 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.
Beywixt hezven and earth and skies there stands a place. Confuining on all three.

Confine

Con"fine , n. 1. Common boundary; border; limit; -- used chiefly in the plural.
Events that came to pass within the confines of Judea.
And now in little space The confines met of emryrean heaven, And of this world.
On the confines of the city and the Temple.
2. Apartment; place of restraint; prison. [Obs.]
Confines, wards, and dungeons.
The extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine.

To restrain within limits; to restrict; to limit; to bound; to shut up; to inclose; to keep close.

(); 277), v. i. To have a common boundary; to border; to lie contiguous; to touch; -- followed by on or with.

Common boundary; border; limit; -- used chiefly in the plural.

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Usage Examples

It's like there are all these languages available, especially in terms of image. Why confine yourself to only English? There's all these languages and possibilities and concepts to speak or communicate with.

I say to my colleagues never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor.

With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue.

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Other Usage Examples

Stone walls confine a tinker cold iron binds a witch but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

There are so many stories to tell in the worlds of science fiction, the worlds of fantasy and horror that to confine yourself to even doing historical revisionist fiction, whatever you want to call it - mash-ups, gimmick lit, absurdist fiction - I don't know if I want to do that anymore.

We should confine booing in sports arenas to sport. I love a good boo as much as the next football fan.

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