Thesaurus: confine

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1. v. t. To restrain within limits; to restrict; to limit; to bound; to shut up; to inclose; to keep close.
2. v. i. To have a common boundary; to border; to lie contiguous; to touch; -- followed by on or with.
3. n. Common boundary; border; limit; -- used chiefly in the plural.
4. n. Apartment; place of restraint; prison.
5. v. place limits on (extent or amount or access)
6. v. prevent from leaving or from being removed
7. v. close in
8. v. deprive of freedom; take into confinement
9. v. to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement
10. To restrain within limits; to restrict; to limit; to bound; toshut up; to inclose; to keep close.Now let not nature's hand Keep the wild flood confined! let orderdie! Shak.He is to confine himself to the compass of numbers and the slavery ofrhyme. Dryden.To be confined, to be in childbed.
11. v:100 v. prevent from leaving or from being removed v. deprive of freedom; take into confinement