Confining

adj, verb

adj, verb ·3 syllables ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of confine form-of, gerund, participle, present
Adjective
  1. 1
    Limiting; restrictive.
Adjective
  1. 1
    crowded wordnet
  2. 2
    restricting the scope or freedom of action wordnet

Example

More examples

"You've got a million dollars in front of you. You can either spend it for yourself or spend it on a surgery for someone you don't know who is in danger of quadriplegia. You don't know each other. And no one will ever know what a noble deed you've done sacrificing all the money for the surgery for a person you don't know, or how mean you were to take the money confining that person to a wheelchair for the rest of their life. So what would you do? You can't share the money."

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