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confine

/ˈkɑnfaɪn/

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What does confine mean?

verb

  1. To restrict (someone or something) to a particular scope or area; to keep in or within certain bounds.

noun

  1. A boundary or limit.
  2. Confinement, imprisonment.
More meanings (1)

verb

  1. (obsolete) To have a common boundary with; to border on.

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IPA pronunciation

/ˈkɑnfaɪn/

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Not having the power to kill so many people, it had to confine itself to burning the principal monuments of the capital.
Gustave Le BonThe Psychology of RevolutionProject Gutenberg ebook #448
To confine ourselves however to the question of objects, which without change of place I can discover by the sense of sight.
William GodwinThoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the AuthorProject Gutenberg ebook #743
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His men conspire against him, confine him a long time to his cabin, and set him on shore in an unknown land.
Jonathan SwiftGulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the WorldProject Gutenberg ebook #829
Marion did not confine his objections to the continued operation of the Confiscation Act, to the single instance which we have given.
William Gilmore SimmsThe Life of Francis MarionProject Gutenberg ebook #843
They tend to confine their own thinking to a consideration of which one among the rival systems of dogma they will accept.
John DeweyDemocracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of EducationProject Gutenberg ebook #852