Confine meaning

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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.

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To keep within bounds; restrict.

Please confine your remarks to the issues at hand.

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To shut or keep in, especially to imprison.
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To keep within limits; restrict.

To confine a talk to ten minutes.

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To restrict in movement.

The sick child was confined to bed.

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A boundary or bounded region; border; limit.
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Confinement.
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A place of confinement.
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To border (on) or be contiguous (with or to another region)
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To keep shut up, as in prison, in bed because of illness, indoors, etc.
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To restrict; to keep within bounds; to shut or keep in a limited space or area.
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To have a common boundary; to border; to lie contiguous; to touch; followed by on or with.
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be confined
  • To be giving birth to a child.
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Idioms and Phrasal Verbs

be confined

Origin of confine

  • French confiner from Old French from confins boundaries confines
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • From Middle French confiner.
    From Wiktionary

Confine Sentence Examples

  • But he did not confine his attention to abstract inquiries.

  • In fact, I'd confine myself to a bank vault or a guru's mountain top sanctuary.

  • He did not, however, confine his energies to travelling.

  • In dealing briefly with the modern history of craft gilds, we may confine our attention to England.

  • With few and early exceptions, such as we may note in the Epistle of Barnabas, chap. i., they confine the word to doctrine.

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