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kənˈfaɪndcon·fined

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. confinedadjective

    not invading healthy tissue

  2. confinedadjective

    not free to move about

  3. captive, confined, imprisoned, jailedadjective

    being in captivity

GCIDE

  1. confinedadjective

    having movement or progress restricted to a certain area; as, an outbreak of the plague confined to one quarter of the city; wildfires confined to within the canyon.

Wiktionary

  1. confinedadjective

    not free to move

Wikipedia

  1. confined

    The Abandoned (also known as The Confines, and Confined) is a 2015 American supernatural horror film directed by Eytan Rockaway, and written by Ido Fluk. It stars Jason Patric, Louisa Krause and Mark Margolis. The film premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival on June 13, 2015, and was released in theaters and video on demand on January 8, 2016 by IFC Films. The film concerns a struggling young woman, who tries to reacquire her normal life by taking a job as a security guard at an abandoned apartment building. The Abandoned marked Rockaway's debut as director.

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  1. confined

    Confined generally refers to being kept or restricted within certain limits, boundaries, or areas, often against one's will. This can relate to physical spaces, like being confined to a room, or more abstract concepts, like being confined by certain rules or circumstances.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Confined

    of Confine

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'confined' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4053

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of confined in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of confined in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of confined in a Sentence

  1. William James:

    The stream of thought flows on but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures.

  2. Carlos Andres Gomez:

    So many men in the world (are) living in this sort of quiet desperation, confined in this box of toxic masculinity.

  3. Aaron David Miller:

    But what do they amount to? It is confined and contained to a soap opera-like exchange that never leads to anything of consequence.

  4. Cathy Spraetz:

    Even giving them months to enjoy this as opposed to being in a more confined environment is the only right thing to do.

  5. Ralph Waldo Emerson:

    The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers.

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