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Confined   /kənfˈaɪnd/   Listen
verb
Confine  v. t.  (past & past part. confined; pres. part. confining)  To restrain within limits; to restrict; to limit; to bound; to shut up; to inclose; to keep close. "Now let not nature's hand Keep the wild flood confined! let order die!" "He is to confine himself to the compass of numbers and the slavery of rhyme."
To be confined, to be in childbed.
Synonyms: To bound; limit; restrain; imprison; immure; inclose; circumscribe; restrict.



Confine  v. i.  To have a common boundary; to border; to lie contiguous; to touch; followed by on or with. (Obs.) "Where your gloomy bounds Confine with heaven." "Bewixt heaven and earth and skies there stands a place. Confining on all three."



adjective
confined  adj.  
1.
Having movement restricted to within a certain area; usually a building. Opposite of unconfined. Note: (Narrower terms: claustrophobic; close, confining; homebound, housebound, shut-in; in childbed(prenominal); pent, shut up(predicate); snowbound; weather-bound; stormbound, storm-bound)
2.
Deprived of liberty; especially placed under arrest or restraint.
3.
Having movement restricted to within an enclosed outdoor area; of animals.
Synonyms: fenced in, penned.
4.
(Med.) Not invading healthy tissue.
5.
Held prisoner.
Synonyms: captive, imprisoned, jailed.
6.
Having movement or progress restricted to a certain area; as, an outbreak of the plague confined to one quarter of the city; wildfires confined to within the canyon.






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"Confined" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the fireman, Simpson's followers confined themselves to cheering Brick and jeering Joe. The two boys circled round and round, attacking, feinting, and guarding, and now one and then the other getting in a telling blow. Their positions were in marked contrast. Joe stood erect, planted solidly on his feet, with ...
— The Cruise of the Dazzler • Jack London

... some of its many inmates as slaves. One day the lawyer previously alluded to, whose chief business seemed to be negro-catching, came with another man, who had employed him for that purpose, and, stopping in front of the cell wherein George and old Ezekiel Thompson were confined, cried out, "That's him!" At which the man exclaimed, "It is, ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 • Various

... the average of the Champion Bay district, and in some parts most luxuriant, the grass having scarcely arrived at maturity was perfectly green; this remarkable change in the character of the country is, I am inclined to think, not entirely confined to this year in particular, but that from meteorological causes this district has not unfrequently the benefit of tropical rains falling during the months of January and February, although not always in ...
— Journals of Australian Explorations • A C and F T Gregory

... at him. As he did so, a cry of terror rang through the rock-hewn chamber, and a pair of soft arms were flung about the old man from behind. By this his aim was so disconcerted that, though the shot still rang out with startling effect in that confined space, its bullet flew wide of the intended ...
— The Copper Princess - A Story of Lake Superior Mines • Kirk Munroe

... subsequent papers, nor any documents which now appear accessible, can supply any authentic or trustworthy evidence as to the real extent of the earlier plot. It certainly was not confined to the mere environs of Richmond. The Norfolk "Epitome" of October 6th states that on the sixth and seventh of the previous month one hundred and fifty blacks, including twenty from Norfolk, were assembled near Whitlock's Mills in Suffolk County, and remained in the neighborhood till the failure ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, Number 59, September, 1862 • Various


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