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confine
/ˈkɑnfaɪn/
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What does confine mean?
verb
- To restrict (someone or something) to a particular scope or area; to keep in or within certain bounds.
noun
- A boundary or limit.
- Confinement, imprisonment.
More meanings (1)
verb
- (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.
To confine ourselves however to the question of objects, which without change of place I can discover by the sense of sight.
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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.
Marion did not confine his objections to the continued operation of the Confiscation Act, to the single instance which we have given.
They tend to confine their own thinking to a consideration of which one among the rival systems of dogma they will accept.