confineable

Variant of confine

noun

  1. a boundary or bounded region; border; limit
  2. Old Poet. confinement
  3. Obsolete a place of confinement

Origin: ME confinies, pl. < OFr confins, pl., a border, boundary < L confinium (pl. confinia), boundary, limit < confinis, bordering on < com-, with + finis, an end: see finish

intransitive verb confined, confining

Rare to border (on) or be contiguous (with or to another region)

Origin: Fr confiner < the n.

transitive verb

  1. to keep within limits; restrict: to confine a talk to ten minutes
  2. to keep shut up, as in prison, in bed because of illness, indoors, etc.

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