confine

noun

(chiefly in the plural) A boundary or limit.

(poetic) Confinement, imprisonment.

verb

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

(obsolete) To have a common boundary with; to border on.

Roots

finisfin- · Latin · end, boundary

Synonyms for confine

restrictv restrainv constrainv enclosev detainv limitn straitenv circumscribev immurev holdv delimitv boundv delimitatev constrictv

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