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verb

Confine v. t. (past & past part. confined; pres. part. confining) 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.

Synonyms: To bound; limit; restrain; imprison; immure; inclose; circumscribe; restrict.

Confine v. i. To have a common boundary; to border; to lie contiguous; to touch; followed by on or with. (Obs.) "Where your gloomy bounds Confine with heaven." "Bewixt heaven and earth and skies there stands a place. Confining on all three."

adjective

confined adj.

Having movement restricted to within a certain area; usually a building. Opposite of unconfined. Note: (Narrower terms: claustrophobic; close, confining; homebound, housebound, shut-in; in childbed(prenominal); pent, shut up(predicate); snowbound; weather-bound; stormbound, storm-bound)

Deprived of liberty; especially placed under arrest or restraint.

Having movement restricted to within an enclosed outdoor area; of animals.

Synonyms: fenced in, penned.

(Med.) Not invading healthy tissue.

Held prisoner.

Synonyms: captive, imprisoned, jailed.

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.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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