Confine

Definition: Confine

Confine

Verb

1. Restrict or confine, as to area, extent, time, etc.

2. Place limits on; "restrict the use of this parking lot".

3. Prevent from leaving or from being removed.

4. Close in or confine.

5. Deprive of freedom; take into confinement.

6. To close within bounds, limit or hold back from movement; "This holds the local until the express passengers change trains"; "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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "confine" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Note: Confine \Con*fine"\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Confined; Confining.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Confine

Circumscription

Verb: circumscribe, limit, bound, confine, inclose; surround; compass about; imprison; (restrain); hedge in, wall in, rail in; fence round, fence in,hedge round; picket; corral.

Edge

Noun: edge, verge, brink, brow, brim, margin, border, confine, skirt, rim, flange, side, mouth; jaws, chops, chaps, fauces; lip, muzzle.

Limit

Noun: limit, boundary, bounds, confine, enclave, term, bourn, verge, curbstone, but, pale, reservation; termination, terminus; stint, frontier, precinct, marches; backwoods.

Restraint

Confine; shut up, shut in; clap up, lock up, box up, mew up, bottle up, cork up, seal up, button up; hem in, bolt in, wall in, rail in; impound, pen, coop; inclose; (circumscribe); cage; incage, encage; close the door upon, cloister; imprison, immure; incarcerate, entomb; clap under hatches, lay under hatches; put in irons, put in a strait-waistcoat; throw into prison, cast into prison; put into bilboes.

Crosswords: Confine

French (confines), Italian (border, bound, boundary, confines, frontier, limit, line, March, pale).

Confine yourself to our royal suite at the Waldorf-Astoria. (Coming to America; writing credit: David Sheffield)

You see, what I'm trying to do is just confine myself to the other five bedrooms. (Beverly Hills Cop II; writing credit: Eddie Murphy; Robert D. Wachs)

A due passi dal confine (1961)

Oltre il confine (2002)

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Books

• Donne al confine : identitáa e corsi di vita femminili nella cittáa del Sud (reference)

• Il confine riscoperto : beni degli esuli, minoranze e cooperazione economica nei rapporti dell'Italia con Slovenia e Croazia (reference)

• Montedison, 1966-1989 : l'evoluzione di una grande impresa al confine tra pubblico e privato (reference)

• Passaggi di confine : etnopsichiatria e migrazioni (reference)

• Quel confine mancato : la linea Wilson, 1919-1945 (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Sul Confine [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Batteria d'accompagnemento in marcia verso il confine sovietico - Luglio 1941. Credit: Library of Congress.

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This measure did confine every man's possession to a very moderate proportion, and such as he might appropriate to himself, without injury to any body, in the first ages of the world, when men were more in danger to be lost, by wandering from their company, in the then vast wilderness of the earth, than to be straitened for want of room to plant in. (Second Treatise of Government)

The distinction between a government with limited and unlimited powers is abolished, if those limits do not confine the persons on whom they are imposed, and if acts prohibited and acts allowed, are of equal obligation. (reference)

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Let us confine ourselves to prayer to God when we think that danger hangs over us.

But to confine myself to those who are said to be in moderate circumstances.

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Health

However, we shall confine ourselves here primarily to a discussion of elevated blood cholesterol. (references)

If you see a bat in your home and you are sure no human or pet exposure has occurred, confine the bat to a room by closing all doors and windows leading out of the room except those to the outside. (references)

Business

However, the authorities continue to confine citizens for political and religious reasons. (references)

Citizens normally confine their political discussions to the numerous gatherings or majlis, held in private homes. (references)

Civil Liberties

Tonga

The TBC guidelines state that in view of "the character of the listening public," those who preach on Radio Tonga must confine their preaching "within the limits of the mainstream Christian tradition." This policy applies to all churches. (references)

Afghanistan

For example, the Taliban allegedly ordered Shi'a to confine their Ashura commemorations during the month of Muharram to their mosques and to avoid the public processions that are an integral part of Ashura in other countries with Shi'a populations. (references)

Economic History

Namibia

At Mt. Etjo, a game park outside Windhoek, in a special meeting of the Joint Commission on April 9, a plan was put in place to confine the South African forces to base and return PLAN elements to Angola. (references)

Human Rights

Pakistan

Additional offenses that can be tried under the Anti-Terrorist Act include acts to outrage religious feelings; efforts to "wage war against the state;" conspiracy; acts committed in abetting an offense; and kidnaping of or abduction to confine a person. (references)

Minorities

Georgia

Some members of the Georgian Orthodox Church and the public view non-Orthodox religious groups, especially nontraditional groups or so-called "sects" as a threat to the national Church and Georgian cultural values and have argued that foreign Christian missionaries should confine their activities to non-Christian areas. (references)

Women

Uzbekistan

In accordance with tradition, women--particularly in rural areas--usually marry before the age of 20, bear many children, and confine their activities to within the family. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "confine": be confine ♦ concentrate and confine ♦ confine a fire ♦ confine oneself ♦ confine oneself to ♦ confine oneself to smth. ♦ confine to quarters. Additional references.

Afrikaans

beperk (limit, restrict), bepaal (affix, attach, command, define, determine, fasten, fix, limit, make, make fast, order, qualify, restrict, secure, set, set conditions, stipulate, tell), begrens (confined, limit, limited, restrict, restricted). (various references)

Albanian

mbyll (bung, calk, caulk, close, close up, commit, crib, dry up, encase, enclose, encompass, end, entomb, fasten, furl, glue up, hush up, impound, inclose, key, lap, obturate, occlude, pen, screw on, seal, shut, shut down, shut up, shutter, stop, stop up, stuff, suffuse, turn off, wind up, wrap up), kufizoj (circumscribe, enclose, hedge in, hem, inclose, limit, localise, localize, narrow, restrain, restrict, specialize, stint, straiten, terminate, tie, truncate). (various references)

Arabic 

‏قفل (block out, close, enclose, fastener, inclose, latch, lock, obstruct, padlock, pen, plug, shut, shut down, shut out, shutter, turn off), ‏قيد (bind, bond, bridle, chain, check, derestrict, enchain, entry, fetter, handcuff, hold back, impose restrictions on, item, limit, limitation, manacle, qualify, record, register, restrain, restrict, restriction, rope, set bounds to, set down, shackle, tie, tie up), ‏حجز (attach, attachment, be taken, bespeak, bond, confinement, constrain, derequisition, detain, detention, distrain, foreclose, have reservations, immure, impound, incarcerate, incarceration, keep, lock, mew, put away, recapture, reservation, reserve, restrain, retention, seize, seizure, sequester, sequestration, shut, staunch, stop, tackle), ‏حد (border, borderline, boundary, brim, definition, delimit, edge, end, extreme, frontier, limit, margin, mourn, outline, restrict, tauten, terminus, utmost degree, verge), ‏حبس (confinement, constraint, crib, custody, duress, gaol, imprison, imprisonment, jail, lockup, mewl, occlude, prison, sequester, sequestration, shut), ‏سجن (be imprisoned, can, clap, clink, cooler, detain, detention, gaol, hatch, hock, immure, imprison, imprisonment, incarcerate, incarceration, intern, internment, jail, jug, lock up, lockup, log cabin, mure, nick, penitentiary, pokey, prison, quod, send up, stir, throw), ‏جعله حبيس, ‏إقتصر (become shorter). (various references)

Bulgarian 

гранича (abut upon, adjoin, bound, neighbor, neighbour, touch), граница (ambit, barricade, border, borderline, bound, boundary, butting, delimitation, demarcation, frontier, limit, mete, pale, party line, precinct, purview, radius, rand, term, verge), ограничавам се (stint), придържам се (adhere, cleave, cling), интернирам (intern), държа в затвор. (various references)

Chinese 

限制 (Confined, Confining, constraint, CONSTRAINTS, limiting, stint, Stinted, stinting). (various references)

Czech

uvìznit (gaol, immure, imprison, incarcerate, jail), upevnit (anchor, consolidate, fasten, fix, forge, infix, make up, moor, picket, plant, plant in, rivet, secure, ship, solidify, Spike, steady, strengthen), omezit (abate, circumscribe, constrict, curb, curtail, cut back, cut down, decrease, deflate, limit, narrow, prune, restrict, retrench, scale down, terminate, trammel), nepustit ven. (various references)

Danish

indskrænke (abridge, limit, restrict). (various references)

Dutch

beperken (abridge, limit, restrict), beknotten (abridge, limit, restrict), begrenzen (abridge, bound, limit, restrict). (various references)

Esperanto

restrikti (limit, restrict), limigi (abridge, limit, restrict). (various references)

Faeroese

avmarka (limit, restrict). (various references)

Farsi 

منحصرکردن (Limit), محدوده , محدودکردن (Bound, Compass, Cramp, Curb, Dam, Gag, Impale, Limit, Narrow, Qualify, Quantify, Restrict, Stint, Straiten, Terminate), محبوس کردن (Stash), حد (Deal, Extent, Limit, Margin, Mark, Measure, Period, Precinct, Provenance, Quantity, Tract). (various references)

Finnish

rajoittaa (border, limit, restrict). (various references)

French

confiner, saisir (collar, confiscate), limiter (control), enfermer, emprisonner. (various references)

Frisian

begrinzgje (limit, restrict). (various references)

German

beschränken (bound, constrict, limit, narrow down, restrict, stint, straiten, tether, to bound, to stint). (various references)

Greek 

περιορίζω (abridge, circumscribe, constrict, contain, cramp, crib, cut down, inhibit, limit, localise, localize, minimize, reduce, restrict, retrench, scant, scotch, stint, straiten). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"�'ביל (constrict, cramp, limit, qualify, restrict, tie up). (various references)

Hungarian

korlátoz (coerce, limit, localise, localize, restrict, retrench, to abridge, to check, to circumscribe, to coerce, to confine, to constrain, to control, to define, to hedge in, to limit, to peg down, to qualify, to restrain, to restrict, to stint, to tie up), határ (border, borderline, bound, boundary, end, extent, frontier, limit, line, line of demarcation, Marge, measure, mere, mete, scope, termination, unambiguous, verge), elkülönít (discriminate, extrapolate, island, isolate, seclude, segregate, separate, to detach, to disassociate, to dissever, to dissociate, to divide, to extricate, to ghettotize, to quarantine, to seclude, to section out, to separate, to sequester, to set apart, to sift). (various references)

Indonesian

perbatasan (border), batas (border, bound, limit, pale). (various references)

Italian

limitare (abridge, bound, curtail, cut down, limit, narrow, rein in, restrict, shrink, stint, straiten, surround), restringere (abridge, constrict, contract, get narrower, limit, limit oneself, narrow, restrict, shrink, straiten, take in, tighten). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

限る　 (to confine, to limit, to restrict), 限る (to confine, to limit, to restrict), 取り� める (to confine, to shut in, to surround), 幽する (to confine to a room), 封じ込める (to confine, to contain, to shut in). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ふうじ�"める (to confine, to contain, to shut in), かぎる (to confine, to limit, to restrict), ゆうする (to be endowed with, to confine to a room, to own), とり�"める (to confine, to shut in, to surround). (various references)

Korean 

수감하십시�". (various references)

Manx

pryssoonaghey (detain, gaol, imprison, incarcerate), jeigh seose, dooney stiagh (close in, confinememt, shut up), cagliagh (demarcation, limit, limitation). (various references)

Norwegian

begrense (limit). (various references)

Papiamen

limitá (limit, restrict). (various references)

Pig Latin

onfinecay

Portuguese

restringir (abridge, astrict, bind, check, contract, cork, cramp, curb, hedge, inhibit, limit, manacle, narrow, put a lid on, qualify, restrain, restrict, retrench, scant, skimp, specialize), limitar (abridge, bind, border, bound, cabin, check, circumscribe, condition, contain, cramp, define, dock, gaol, hedge, jail, limit, narrow, number, put a lid on, qualify, restrict, retrench, scant, shorten, specialize, terminate, tie, verge). (various references)

Romanian

restrânge (bound, constrain, cut, diminish, drop, limit, localise, localize, narrow, narrow down, restrict, restriction, retrench), reţine (arrest, bespeak, book, catch, delay, detain, dock, engage, fix, ground, hinder, hold, hold in, impede, keep, keep back, keep in, laten, learn, memorize, nota bene, refrain, remember, reserve, restrain, retain, secure, stop, take by the button, trammel, withhold), limitã (ambit, barrier, border, borderland, bound, boundary, brink, ceiling, circumscription, coast, compass, division, edge, end, extremity, limit, line, margin, pale, precinct, termination, terminus, tether, the last straw, verge), limita (abridge, circumscribe, limit, restrict), hotar (border, bound, boundary, bounds, bourn, Bourne, coast, confines, edge, end, extremity, frontier, limit, line, Marge, margin, mete, pale, stint, terminus, verge), graniţã (ambit, barrier, border, bound, boundary, bourn, Bourne, confines, division, extremity, frontier, March, margin, mete, terminus, verge), bloca (bar, block, blockade, close, jam, lock, obstruct, occlude, skid, stop), aresta (apprehend, arrest, grab, have up, lag, nab, pinch, prison, seize, take into custody, trap), închide (bar, block, bolt, cage, chest, clap up, clasp, clench, close, closet, comprise, contain, crib, darken, embay, enclose, fasten, furl, girdle, half-shut, heal, hem, impound, imprison, include, lock, occlude, seal, shut, shut down, shut in, shut the works down, stopper). (various references)

Russian 

граница (abutment, abuttal, ambits, border, border line, borderline, bound, boundary, bounder, bourn, bourne, butting, compass, frontier, limit, mete, pale, verge), ограничивать (bound, circumscribe, constrain, delimit, determine, enclose, hedge, inclose, limit, narrow, pinch, qualify, restrain, restrict, scanting, scrimp, set a limit, set bounds, specialize, stint, straiten, terminate), заключать (conclude, encompass, establish, inclose, inclosing, include, infer, nail down, transact). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

vezati (associate, attach, band, bind, connect, couple, knot, lace, lash, link, moor, tie), staviti u pritvor, razgraničiti (mark off, restrict), ograničiti (constrain, delimit, delimitate, limit, localise, localize, repress, restrict, stint, tie up), međa (border, landmark, march), granica (ambit, border, bound, boundary, butting, fringe, frontier, limit, line, march). (various references)

Spanish

limitar (abridge, keep down, limit, pale, qualify, restrict, stint, tie, tie down, wind down), confín (limit). (various references)

Swedish

begränsa (bound, circumscribe, constrain, define, delimit, delimitate, flank, hedge, limit, localise, localize, restrict), internera (detain, intern), inspärra (cage, immure, shut up), gräns (border, boundary, bounds, division, frontier, limit, pale, precinct, verge). (various references)

Turkish

tutmak (abide by, add up to, affect, Bate, be, bespeak, bind, book, catch, charter, check, choke, choke back, choke down, choke off, claw hold of, clench, clutch, cog, cohere, come to, constrain, contain, cost, cramp, engage, Favor, favour, figure out at, fish, gather, get hold of, grapple, grasp, grip, guard, hang onto, hire, hire on, hold, hold back, hold in, hold on, hold on to, hold up, inhibit, intercept, keep, keep back, keep down, keep in, keep to, occupy, play, play on, play upon, possess, redeem, remand, reserve, restrain, retain, save, seize, seize on, stanchion, stick, stick to, stifle, strangle, support, take, take up, tot up, total, uphold, withhold, work out at), sınırlamak (bound, call off, circumscribe, constrain, hedge, hedge about, hedge around, hem in, hold in, imprison, limit, line off, localize, qualify, restrain, restrict, straitjacket, terminate, tie), sınır (border, borderland, borderline, bound, boundary, bourn, Bourne, butting, circumscription, compass, deadline, extreme, extremity, frontier, limit, limitation, line of demarcation, March, pale, purlieu, skirting, stint, verge, watershed), loğusa olmak (be in childbed, lie in), kapamak (block, block up, bung up, close, coop, coop in, coop up, cover, cover in, encase, fence in, hang up, obstruct, obturate, occlude, seal, shut, shut down, shut in, shut out, shut to, shut up, shutter, stop, stop up, top, turn off, turn out, wind up, wipe out), hapsetmek (bar, cage, detain, immure, imprison, incarcerate, intern, jail, lock up, mew, mew up, mure, pen, pen in, pen up, restrain, shut in, shut up). (various references)

Ukrainian

ув'язнювати (constrain, dungeon, embar, gaol, immure, imprison, incarcerate, jail, pound, prison, quod), рубіж (barrier, delimitation, frontier, limit), обмежувати (abridge, astrict, bail, bound, circumscribe, cramp, enclose, limit, narrow, pinch on, restrain, restrict, stint, straiten, terminate). (various references)

Welsh

cyfyngu (limit, narrow), cyffin (border, bound), caethiwo (bind, enslave), goror (border, coast). (various references)

pag. (various references)

adfigat, adfigens, adfigentes, adfiget, adfigi, adfixerat, adfixerunt, adfixi, adfixit, arce, circumscribere, claudamus, claudat, claude, claudent, claudentur, clauderetur, claudet, claudetur, claudeturque, claudi, claudit, clauditis, clausa, clausae, clausas, clauserat, clauserit, clausero, clauserunt, clausi, clausis, clausisset, clausit, clausitque, clauso, clausos, clausum, clausus, claususque, clude, cludendi, cludentur, cludere, cludit, cluserit, cluserunt, cluseruntque, clusit, cluso, clusum, clusuris, coerceo, coercere, coercitus, coercui, cogo, cohibebant, cohibebo, cohibeo, cohibere, cohibita, confinia, confinium, conpescens, conpescuit, constricti, constringantur, constringatur, constringe, constringes, constringit, constringitur, constringo constrixi constrictum, constringuntur, constrinxerant, constrinxerit, contineo, obstrinxerat, restringere, secludere. (various references)

interner. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "confine": confined, confinement, confinements, confiner, confiners, confines. (additional references)

Words containing "confine": unconfined. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Confine" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bonfante, cafine, Cofino, Cofone, confen, confi, confiance, confin, confineth, contine, Contini, convein, convien. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: conine.

-2 letters: conin, nonce.

-3 letters: cine, cion, coif, coin, cone, coni, conn, fice, fico, fine, fino, foci, foin, icon, info, neif, neon, nice, nine, none, once.

-4 letters: con, eon, fen, fie, fin, foe, fon, ice, inn, ion, one.

-5 letters: ef, en, if, in, ne, no, oe, of, on.

+1 letter: confined, confiner, confines.

+2 letters: cofinance, confident, confiners, enforcing, falconine, infection.

+3 letters: cofinanced, cofinances, confecting, confection, conferring, confessing, confession, confidante, confidence, functioned, infections, inflection, omnificent, uncoffined, unconfined.

+4 letters: benefaction, coinferring, confections, confessions, confidantes, confidences, confidently, confinement, fecundation, fibronectin, inflections, noninfected, nonspecific, reenforcing, reinfection, reinforcing, unconfirmed.

+5 letters: benefactions, cockneyfying, confectioner, conferencing, conferential, confessional, confidential, confinements, disinfection, fecundations, fibronectins, functionless, genuflection, inflectional, noncertified, noneffective, nonfluencies, noninfective, noninfluence, reconfirming, reinfections, somnifacient, transfection, unreinforced.