'Confine' definitions:

Definition of 'confine'

(from WordNet)
verb
Place limits on (extent or access); "restrict the use of this parking lot"; "limit the time you can spend with your friends" [syn: restrict, restrain, trammel, limit, bound, confine, throttle]
verb
Restrict or confine, "I limit you to two visits to the pub a day" [syn: limit, circumscribe, confine]
verb
Prevent from leaving or from being removed
verb
Close in; darkness enclosed him" [syn: enclose, hold in, confine]
verb
Deprive of freedom; take into confinement [syn: confine, detain] [ant: free, liberate, loose, release, unloose, unloosen]
verb
To close within bounds, limit or hold back from movement; "This holds the local until the express passengers change trains"; "About a dozen animals were held inside the stockade"; "The illegal immigrants were held at a detention center"; "The terrorists held the journalists for ransom" [syn: restrain, confine, hold]

Definition of 'Confine'

From: GCIDE
  • Confine \Con*fine"\ (k[o^]n*f[imac]n"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Confined; p. pr. & vb. n. Confining.] [F. confiner to border upon, LL. confinare to set bounds to; con- + finis boundary, end. See Final, Finish.] To restrain within limits; to restrict; to limit; to bound; to shut up; to inclose; to keep close. [1913 Webster]
  • Now let not nature's hand Keep the wild flood confined! let order die! --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • He is to confine himself to the compass of numbers and the slavery of rhyme. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • To be confined, to be in childbed.
  • Syn: To bound; limit; restrain; imprison; immure; inclose; circumscribe; restrict. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Confine'

From: GCIDE
  • Confine \Con"fine\ (? or ?); 277), v. i. To have a common boundary; to border; to lie contiguous; to touch; -- followed by on or with. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • Where your gloomy bounds Confine with heaven. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • Bewixt heaven and earth and skies there stands a place. Confining on all three. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Confine'

From: GCIDE
  • Confine \Con"fine\, n.
  • 1. Common boundary; border; limit; -- used chiefly in the plural. [1913 Webster]
  • Events that came to pass within the confines of Judea. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
  • And now in little space The confines met of empyrean heaven, And of this world. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • On the confines of the city and the Temple. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Apartment; place of restraint; prison. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • Confines, wards, and dungeons. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • The extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'confine'

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