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confine
[ kuhn-fahyn kon-fahyn ]
verb (used with object)
- to enclose within bounds; limit or restrict:
She confined her remarks to errors in the report. Confine your efforts to finishing the book.
Synonyms:
Antonyms:
- to shut or keep in; prevent from leaving a place because of imprisonment, illness, discipline, etc.:
For that offense he was confined to quarters for 30 days.
Antonyms:
noun
- Usually confines. a boundary or bound; limit; border; frontier.
- Often confines. region; territory.
- Archaic. confinement.
- Obsolete. a place of confinement; prison.
confine
verb
- to keep or close within bounds; limit; restrict
- to keep shut in; restrict the free movement of
arthritis confined him to bed
noun
- often plural a limit; boundary
Derived Forms
- ˈDzԴھԱ, adjective
- DzˈھԲ, adjective
- DzˈھԱ, noun
Other yvlog Forms
- Dz·ھa· Dz·ھԱa· adjective
- Dz·ھԱl adjective
- Dz·ھİ noun
- ԴDzcDz·ھiԲ adjective
- cDz·ھԱ verb (used with object) preconfined preconfining
- ܲȴ-Dz·ھiԲ adjective
- cDz·ھԱ verb (used with object) reconfined reconfining
- -Dz·ھiԲ adjective
- unDz·ھa· adjective
- ܲcDz·ھiԲ adjective
yvlog History and Origins
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of confine1
Example Sentences
But Guiraudie has never exactly been interested in working within the confines of reality.
The song also reads like an allegory for a young Mexican American woman who is caught between two cultures, struggling with the confining nature of being enough for both sides of her identity.
Mr Campos believes the idea of a black hole of rights in El Salvador applies beyond the confines of the Cecot – to the nation as a whole.
“No longer are we confined to ‘kitchen, children and church,’ and we must see to it that these avenues are kept forever open for American women.”
To this day, Allen remains confined to a wheelchair paralysed below his upper chest.
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