'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
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'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- arena,
- arrest,
- bar,
- bastille,
- be into,
- be strong in,
- block,
- border line,
- bottle up,
- bound,
- boundary,
- boundary condition,
- boundary line,
- bounds,
- bourn,
- box,
- box in,
- box up,
- break boundary,
- breakoff point,
- cabin,
- cage,
- casket,
- ceiling,
- check,
- cincture,
- circumference,
- circumscribe,
- circumscription,
- cloister,
- close,
- closet,
- coffin,
- compass,
- condition,
- constrain,
- constrict,
- contain,
- container,
- contract,
- coop,
- coop in,
- coop up,
- copyright,
- cork up,
- court,
- courtyard,
- cramp,
- crib,
- curtilage,
- cutoff,
- cutoff point,
- deadline,
- delay,
- delimit,
- delimitate,
- delimitation,
- delimited field,
- detain,
- determinant,
- dimensions,
- diminish,
- discipline,
- division line,
- drag,
- draw in,
- draw the line,
- encage,
- encase,
- enclave,
- enclose,
- enclosure,
- end,
- entomb,
- extent,
- extremity,
- feature,
- fence in,
- field,
- finish,
- floor,
- frontier,
- go in,
- go in for,
- ground,
- hedge,
- hedge about,
- hem,
- hem in,
- high-water mark,
- hinder,
- hold,
- hold back,
- hold in custody,
- hold in restraint,
- hold up,
- immure,
- impede,
- impound,
- incarcerate,
- inhibit,
- interface,
- intern,
- jail,
- jug,
- keep back,
- keep from spreading,
- keep in,
- keep in custody,
- keep in detention,
- keep within bounds,
- lag,
- limen,
- limit,
- limitation,
- limiting factor,
- limits,
- line,
- line of demarcation,
- list,
- localize,
- low-water mark,
- lower limit,
- major in,
- make late,
- march,
- mark,
- mete,
- mew,
- mew up,
- minor in,
- moderate,
- narrow,
- obstruct,
- orbit,
- pale,
- paling,
- park,
- patent,
- pen,
- pen up,
- periphery,
- pound,
- precincts,
- prison,
- purlieus,
- pursue,
- purview,
- quad,
- quadrangle,
- qualify,
- quod,
- radius,
- rail in,
- reach,
- register,
- restrain,
- restrict,
- retard,
- scant,
- scope,
- seal up,
- shackle,
- shut in,
- shut up,
- slacken,
- slow down,
- snape,
- specialize,
- specialize in,
- square,
- start,
- starting line,
- starting point,
- stay,
- stint,
- stop,
- straiten,
- sweep,
- taper,
- target date,
- term,
- terminal date,
- terminus,
- theater,
- threshold,
- tighten,
- time allotment,
- toft,
- upper limit,
- wall in,
- yard