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confine English

Meaning confine meaning

What does confine mean?
Definitions in simple English

confine Verb

— If you confine someone or something to a particular topic or activity, you do not let them do other topics or activities. Humphrey did not confine his activities just to the factory. Her relatively short life was largely confined to Copenhagen. — If you confine somebody or something, you put them in a place that they cannot leave. For the first twenty years he was confined in prison-like conditions. The disease was confined to a small area within the Camperdown district.

confine

— verb (= restrict, limit) place limits on (extent or access) restrict the use of this parking lot limit the time you can spend with your friends — verb (= limit) restrict or confine I limit you to two visits to the pub a day — verb prevent from leaving or from being removed — verb deprive of freedom; take into confinement — verb (= hold) 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 — verb (= enclose) close in; darkness enclosed him"

Synonyms confine synonyms

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confine English » English

limit restrict imprison restrain detain jail enclose abridge incarcerate bound lock up shut in intern immure circumscribe border hold boundary surround put in prison frontier cramp stint shut up gaol contain close in close cage bind trammel tighten tie up tie pen oppress manacle localize hold in handcuff gird fetter fasten curtail coop up constrain condense wind up throttle tether

Topics confine topics

What do people use confine to talk about?
Social behavior Law Punish

Imprison
Physical actions Move Pursue

Prevent from moving

Conjugation confine conjugation

How do you conjugate confine?

confine · verb

Examples confine examples

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Simple sentences

Your boundaries don't confine me.
Confine your remarks to the matter we are discussing.
We should confine the discussion to the question at issue.

Movie subtitles

Bless these waters and absolve from sin he whose body we now confine to them.
I demand Mr. Deeds. dispense with side remarks and confine himself to facts.
Doctor, I advise you to confine your experiments to animals.
Zola's accusations cover a wide field yet you are allowed to confine us to six lines of his complete article.
Confine yourself to the facts.
The prosecutor will confine himself to the matter contained in the true bill.
You will confine yourself, it is our understanding to the chapters in Mr. Thatcher's manuscript regarding Mr. Kane. That's all I'm interested in.
Very well, if it amuses you. But I advise you to confine your hobby to the entertainment of yourself and your friends.
Only what you did for yourself last night. Confine you.
Would you please confine your cleaning to your own room!
How could I? I must again caution the witness to confine himself to answering questions.
And confine your instruction to this alone.
And at its warning, the wandering and uneasy spirit hies to its confine.
Witness will please confine herself to the recital of facts.
I demand Mr Deeds confine himself to facts.
I'm afraid we'll have to confine him to his tent.
You will confine yourself, it is our understanding to the chapters in Mr. Thatcher's manuscript regarding Mr. Kane.
But I advise you to confine your hobby to the entertainment of yourself and your friends.
Kindly confine your performance to your instrument, if you please?
Confine yourself to the affairs of God.
I suggest to you, Rommel, that you confine your genius to fighting. and leave the conduct of the war to those who are responsible for it!
No, I confine my gazing to the eye, ear, nose and throat.
The witness will confine herself to answer as to the facts.
Take them all below and confine them to quarters.
Yes, sir. Present your weapon to the Sergeant of the Guard and confine yourself to quarters under arrest.
With or without gloves. Let us not surmise, Sir Wilfrid, but confine ourselves to facts.
If I were you I'd confine myself to posing.
As long as you confine your deception to reasonable limits. I was willing to condone matters.. but now..
Miss Houlihan, may I suggest that you confine yourself to your secretarial duties?
You will be required to leave this room at 4:30 promptly. You will confine yourself, it is our understanding to the chapters in Mr. Thatcher's manuscript regarding Mr. Kane.
Young woman, I shall call the police unless you confine yourself to English and sensible English at that.
You just confine yourself to looking.
Let us not surmise, Sir Wilfrid, but confine ourselves to facts.
Captain Patch, you must confine your answers to what you can swear to as matters of fact.
These silences to which you confine me are worse than death.
Please, confine yourself to answering the questions only.
For know, lago but that I love the gentle Desdemona I would not my unhoused free condition put into circumscription and confine for the sea's worth.
Stand you a while apart. Confine yourself but in a patient list.

News and current affairs

The defensiveness of Jews and the uneasy silence of their friends mean that the stage of public debate is open for those who actually are anti-Semitic, though they confine themselves to anti-Israel language.
Even macroprudential regulation is of dubious value: supervisors should confine themselves to overseeing individual institutions, leaving macro-level policy to the grownups.
But the US and the West cannot leave the matter entirely to others or confine their efforts to the United Nations, where Russia and China prevent any effective action.
On the contrary, when we confine animals in factory farms, we have to grow food for them.
They are telling everyone around them that they are more zealous and meticulous in their religious observance than those who confine their religiosity to private life.
Should the state confine itself to creating an economic environment favorable to private enterprise?
The goal of the PVPV is to confine women to the domestic realm and end all female participation in public and political life.
Still more probably, it might confine politics to the day-to-day management of redistributing wealth among groups that coexist in the same society but do not necessarily share much else.
I am personally involved in the neighboring countries to the East, so I shall confine my remarks to that region.
At the same time, though, it will confine its threats mainly to the verbal level.
But if we are pointing the finger at Sea World for what it does to its captive animals, we should also look more broadly at the way we confine performing animals.
Clinton and the US administration would do well to decide which requests are merely photo ops and confine these to meetings at the sidelines of APEC.
The gangs are now more organized in El Salvador because the authorities confine many of them in separate jails according to their specific group.

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