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US
/kənˈfaɪn/
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VERB
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place limits on (extent or amount or access)
limit the time you can spend with your friends
restrict the use of this parking lot - deprive of freedom; take into confinement
- prevent from leaving or from being removed
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to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement
This holds the local until the express passengers change trains
The terrorists held the journalists for ransom
The illegal immigrants were held at a detention center
About a dozen animals were held inside the stockade -
close in
darkness enclosed him
How To Use confine In A Sentence
- Neither do I think moraines of this kind would be formed by a glacier emerging from a steep narrow canyon and running out on a level plain; for in such cases, as soon as the confinement of the bounding walls is removed, the ice stream spreads out into an _ice lake_. The Lake of the Sky Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras of California and Nevada, its History, Indians, Discovery by Frémont, Legendary Lore, Various Namings, Physical Characteristics, Glacial Phenomena, Geology, Single Outlet, Automobile Routes, Historic Town
- She pulled the black scrunchie out of her long glossy red-gold hair, the silky strands having been confined in a simple low, sleek ponytail.
- Scratching doesn't have to be confined to just hip-hop tracks.
- Bob squeezed his muscular shoulders into the narrow confines of the top turret.
- You may claim to dislike walking and it is often an unpleasant experience when confined to hard pavements, and busy, polluted streets. How to Lower High Blood Pressure
- Whether these are in widely different subjects, or whether they just stay within the confines of a traditional subject grouping, is yet to be resolved.
- The director creatively allows the audience to look beyond the confines of the theatre space.
- At that time, I being but eight years of age, was left in town for the convenience of education, boarded with an aunt, who was a rigid presbyterian, and confined me so closely to what she called the duties of religion, that in time I grew weary of her doctrines, and by degrees received an aversion for the good books, she daily recommended to my perusal. The Adventures of Roderick Random
- Around 6,000 were jailed for their beliefs, some spending months in solitary confinement. The Sun
- This is an unprofitable business and it is not confined to Britain's biggest supermarket chain.