Confine definition
To keep within bounds; restrict.
Please confine your remarks to the issues at hand.
verb
To keep within limits; restrict.
To confine a talk to ten minutes.
verb
To shut or keep in, especially to imprison.
verb
A boundary or bounded region; border; limit.
noun
To confine is to impose limits or restrictions, or to prevent someone from leaving.
When you ground your child and don't let him leave his room, this is an example of a situation where you confine your child.
When you limit your paper to arguments in favor of something, this is an example of a situation where you confine your paper to affirmative arguments.
verb
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(old poet.) Confinement.
noun
To restrict in movement.
The sick child was confined to bed.
verb
(obs.) A place of confinement.
noun
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(rare) To border (on) or be contiguous (with or to another region)
verb
To keep shut up, as in prison, in bed because of illness, indoors, etc.
verb
be confined
- to be giving birth to a child
idiom
Idioms and Phrasal Verbs
be confined