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UK
/kənfˈaɪnɪŋ/
]
[ US /kənˈfaɪnɪŋ/ ]
[ US /kənˈfaɪnɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- restricting the scope or freedom of action
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crowded
close quarters
How To Use confining In A Sentence
- Critics of regulation effectively cede the offensive to statists by confining their critique to case studies of regulation gone awry.
- The fit should be snug but not confining - remember, they'll stretch a bit with use.
- a confining boxed-in space
- The ranges of mountains which nearly surround the valley of the springs, as they follow the course of the river down on each side, become greatly approximated to each other, and confining that stream to very small borders and compressed breadth, constitutes what is here termed the narrows; and again expanding or receding from each other, form Salt river valley. Life in the Rocky Mountains
- Before the enactment of the rule confining the coachers to a limited space the coacher at third base sometimes played a sharp trick on the second baseman. Base-Ball How to Become a Player
- For the immediate future, he will be confining his training to one night a week with each team.
- unfoldment" or "unwrapping" of the soul from its confining sheaths, one by one. Reincarnation and the Law of Karma A Study of the Old-New World-Doctrine of Rebirth, and Spiritual Cause and Effect
- Confining himself exclusively to postwar moderns would net him only a handful of converts.
- Instead, the tendency seems to be for artists to speak in the airiest and least confining of generalities. The Times Literary Supplement
- The one covers the outer surface of the body, the other the inner surface of the ventral wall; hence they are called confining or limiting layers. The Evolution of Man — Volume 1