Confine

Quick meaning: Confine is a verb meaning (transitive) To restrict (someone or something) to a particular scope or area; to keep in or within certain bounds.

Meaning

(transitive) To restrict (someone or something) to a particular scope or area; to keep in or within certain bounds.

More Meanings

1. (poetic) Confinement, imprisonment.
2. (obsolete) To have a common boundary with; to border on.
3. (chiefly in the plural) A boundary or limit.

Example Sentences

Where your gloomy bounds / Confine with heaven

Now let not nature's hand / Keep the wild flood confined! let order die!

Betwixt heaven and earth and skies there stands a place / Confining on all three.

She says for you to bring her a slice of cake, A bottle of the best wine, And not to forget the fair young lady That did release you from close confine.

Word Forms

• confines
• confining
• confined

Synonyms for confine

Depending on context, synonyms include border, bound, limit, pen, hold, restrain.

Antonyms for confine

Common opposites include free, release, loose, liberate, unloose.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include circumscribe, limit, restrict, restrain, hold, enclose.

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