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UK
/kənfˈaɪnd/
]
[ US /kənˈfaɪnd/ ]
[ US /kənˈfaɪnd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- not free to move about
- not invading healthy tissue
- being in captivity
How To Use confined In A Sentence
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- This is an unprofitable business and it is not confined to Britain's biggest supermarket chain.
- The little girl has dystonic quadriplegic cerebral palsy, which means she is confined to a wheelchair and needs 24-hour care.
- Sternbane was the only member of the public who spoke on the proposal, but supervisors sympathized with nonsmokers, who sometimes have to share the confined spaces with people who pass the time by smoking. Fairfax County bans smoking in bus shelters
- He later became insane and was confined to an asylum.
- Alexandra has cerebral palsy, is confined to a wheelchair and suffers from frequent epileptic fits.
- All this, it will be noticed, is a case of cell-multiplication, which differs from that which takes place in the unicellular organisms only in its being _invariably_ preceded (as far as we know) by karyokinesis, and in the resulting cells being all confined within a common envelope, and so in not being free to separate. Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions