confine

1. v. t. To restrain within limits; to restrict; to limit; to bound; to shut up; to inclose; to keep close. Source: opted

2. v. i. To have a common boundary; to border; to lie contiguous; to touch; -- followed by on or with. Source: opted

3. n. Common boundary; border; limit; -- used chiefly in the plural. Source: opted

4. n. Apartment; place of restraint; prison. Source: opted

5. v. place limits on (extent or amount or access) Source: wordnet

6. v. prevent from leaving or from being removed Source: wordnet

7. v. close in Source: wordnet

8. v. deprive of freedom; take into confinement Source: wordnet

9. v. to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement Source: wordnet

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. Source: adambom

11. v:100 v. prevent from leaving or from being removed v. deprive of freedom; take into confinement Source: ecdict

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