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Confine

verb

(past & past part. confined; pres. part. confining)

Place limits on (extent or access). Synonyms: bound, limit, restrain, restrict, throttle, trammel. "Limit the time you can spend with your friends"

Restrict or confine,. Synonyms: circumscribe, limit.

Prevent from leaving or from being removed.

Close in. Synonyms: enclose, hold in.

Deprive of freedom; take into confinement. Synonym: detain. Antonym: free.

To close within bounds, limit or hold back from movement. Synonyms: hold, restrain. "About a dozen animals were held inside the stockade" , "The illegal immigrants were held at a detention center" , "The terrorists held the journalists for ransom"

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"Confine" Quotes from Famous Books

... original dances are treated with the creative skill of genius; but also in the etudes, the preludes, nocturnes, scherzos, ballads, etc., with which he so enriched musical literature. His genius could never confine itself within classic bonds, but, fantastic and impulsive, swayed and bent itself with easy grace to inspirations that were always novel and startling, though his boldness was chastened by deep study ...

— The Great German Composers • George T. Ferris

... retired from that conversation to her chamber, and immediately have written this letter to her lover! With such a woman as that what can be done in these days otherwise than by the aid of such a one as Bozzle? He could not confine his wife in a dungeon. He could not save himself from the disgrace of her misconduct, by any rigours of surveillance on his own part. As wives are managed now-a-days, he could not forbid to her the use ...

— He Knew He Was Right • Anthony Trollope

... boy. You observe that in the centre there is a frame to confine the human head, somewhat larger than the head itself, and that the head rests upon the iron collar beneath. When the head is thus firmly fixed, suppose I want to reduce the size of any particular organ, I take the boss ...

— Mr. Midshipman Easy • Frederick Marryat

... he thought 'twas but one o' her pretty trickeries, and I heard his gay laugh as he came to the shut door, and he called out, and said, "So, sweetheart, I am in truth a prisoner o' war; but art thou not an unmerciful general to confine the captured in so rheumatic ...

— A Brother To Dragons and Other Old-time Tales • Amelie Rives

... I come out into the open, what an ecstasy! I won't speak to you of this, for I feel I must be silent about these joys. They must not be exposed: they are birds that love silence. . . . Let us confine our speech to that essential happiness which is not easily affrighted—the happiness of feeling ...

— Letters of a Soldier - 1914-1915 • Anonymous

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