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Confining   /kənfˈaɪnɪŋ/   Listen
Confining

adjective
1.
Restricting the scope or freedom of action.  Synonyms: constraining, constrictive, limiting, restricting.
2.
Crowded.  Synonym: close.


Confine

verb
(past & past part. confined; pres. part. confining)
1.
Place limits on (extent or access).  Synonyms: bound, limit, restrain, restrict, throttle, trammel.  "Limit the time you can spend with your friends"
2.
Restrict or confine,.  Synonyms: circumscribe, limit.
3.
Prevent from leaving or from being removed.
4.
Close in.  Synonyms: enclose, hold in.
5.
Deprive of freedom; take into confinement.  Synonym: detain.  Antonym: free.
6.
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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"Confining" Quotes from Famous Books



... divided in the centre into two distinct lobes by a single marked furrow which gave his expression a hint of the wistful. Looking at that forehead one was strangely conscious of the brain beneath. There seemed no bony structure; the mind, undefended, was growing and pushing the confining ...
— The Night Horseman • Max Brand
... temperate king, and has given me the most essential demonstrations of his love. What can be a greater proof of the sincerity of his passion, than sending away all his women (of which he had a great number) immediately upon my arrival, and confining himself to me alone? I am now his wife, and he has lately declared me queen of Persia, to share with him in his councils; besides, I am pregnant, and if heaven permit me to give him a son, that will be another motive to engage my affections ...
— The Arabian Nights Entertainments vol. 3 • Anon.
... reports made to myself in person by those who were in important offices, keeping my affairs secret, distributing graces according to my own choice, reserving to myself alone all my authority, and confining those who served me to a modest position very far from the elevation of ...
— A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times - Volume V. of VI. • Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot
... land scituate and being at Blunt Point, confining on the east the land of Cornelius May, on the south upon the great river, on the north upon the maine land and on the west runing towards a small creek one hundred rod (at sixteene foote ...
— Mother Earth - Land Grants in Virginia 1607-1699 • W. Stitt Robinson, Jr.
... Marine League asks, What are the ten best books of the sea? Without pondering very deeply on the matter, and confining ourself to prose, we would suggest the following ...
— Plum Pudding - Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned • Christopher Morley


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