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Confine

//kənˈfaɪn// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A boundary or limit. in-plural
  2. 2
    Confinement, imprisonment. poetic

    "She says for you to bring her a slice of cake, A bottle of the best wine, And not to forget the fair young lady That did release you from close confine."

Verb
  1. 1
    To have a common boundary with; to border on. obsolete

    "Where your gloomy bounds / Confine with heaven"

  2. 2
    place limits on (extent or amount or access) wordnet
  3. 3
    To restrict (someone or something) to a particular scope or area; to keep in or within certain bounds. transitive

    "Now let not nature's hand / Keep the wild flood confined! let order die!"

  4. 4
    to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement wordnet
  5. 5
    prevent from leaving or from being removed wordnet
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  1. 6
    deprive of freedom; take into confinement wordnet
  2. 7
    close in wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle French confiner, from confins, from Medieval Latin confines, from Latin confinium, from confīnis.

Etymology 2

From Middle French confiner, from confins, from Medieval Latin confines, from Latin confinium, from confīnis.

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