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1. (v.t.) confine
to enclose within bounds; limit or restrict:
Confine your remarks to the subject at hand.
2. confine
to shut or keep in; prevent from leaving a place because of imprisonment, illness, discipline, etc.
3. (n.) confine
Usu., confines. a boundary or bound; limit; border.
4. confine
Often, confines. region; territory.
5. confine
Archaic.
6. confine
Obs. a place of confinement; prison.
Etymology: (1350–1400; (n.) ME < MF confins, confines < ML confīnia, pl. of L confīnis boundary (see con -, fine2); (v.) < MF confiner, v. der. of confins < L)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (verb) restrict, restrain, trammel, limit, bound, confine, throttle
place limits on (extent or access)
"restrict the use of this parking lot"; "limit the time you can spend with your friends"
2. (verb) limit, circumscribe, confine
restrict or confine, "I limit you to two visits to the pub a day"
3. (verb) confine
prevent from leaving or from being removed
4. (verb) enclose, hold in, confine
close in; darkness enclosed him"
5. (verb) confine, detain
deprive of freedom; take into confinement
6. (verb) restrain, confine, hold
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 held the journalists for ransom"
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1. (verb) confine
to force sb or sth to remain in a small place
animals confined in tiny cages; an illness that confines him to bed
2. confine
to limit the activity or the spread of sth; = restrict
The disease is confined to these two areas.
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) confine
common boundary; border; limit; -- used chiefly in the plural
2. (noun) confine
apartment; place of restraint; prison
3. (verb) confine
to restrain within limits; to restrict; to limit; to bound; to shut up; to inclose; to keep close
4. (verb) confine
to have a common boundary; to border; to lie contiguous; to touch; -- followed by on or with
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Sense: to keep within limits; to stop from spreading
They succeeded in confining the fire to a small area.
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 Afrikaans: beperk |
 Arabic: يَحْصُر |
 Bulgarian: ограничавам |
 Brazilian: confinar |
 Czech: omezit |
 German: begrenzen |
 Danish: begrænse |
 Greek: περιορίζω |
 Spanish: confinar, limitar |
 Estonian: piirides pidama |
 Farsi: محدود کردن |
 Finnish: rajata |
 French: contenir |
 Hebrew: לְהַגבִּיל, לְרָתֵק |
 Hindi: सीमा बद्ध करना |
 Croatian: ograničiti, omeđiti |
 Hungarian: korlátoz |
 Indonesian: membatasi |
 Icelandic: einskorða, takmarka |
 Italian: limitare |
 Japanese: 限る |
 Korean: 국한하다 |
 Lithuanian: apriboti, lokalizuoti |
 Latvian: ierobežot |
 Malay: linkungan |
 Dutch: beperken |
 Norwegian: begrense, innskrenke |
 Polish: ograniczać, izolować |
 Persian: محدود کردن |
 Pashto: محدودول، په جار كې ساتل، |
 Portuguese: limitar |
 Romanian: a restrânge |
 Russian: ограничивать |
 Slovak: obmedziť |
 Slovenian: omejiti |
 Serbian: zauzdati |
 Swedish: begränsa, inskränka |
 Thai: จำกัด |
 Turkish: sınırlı tutmak |
 Taiwanese: 限制 |
 Ukrainian: обмежувати |
 Urdu: حد كے اندر ركهنا، حد سے |
 Vietnamese: hạn chế |
 Chinese: 限制 |
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