CONFINE

• (verb) place limits on (extent or access)

  "restrict the use of this parking lot", "limit the time you can spend with your friends"

  synonyms : bound , limit , restrain , restrict , throttle , trammel

• (verb) restrict or confine,

  "I limit you to two visits to the pub a day"

  synonyms : circumscribe , limit

• (verb) 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"

  synonyms : hold , restrain

• (verb) prevent from leaving or from being removed

• (verb) deprive of freedom; take into confinement

  synonyms : detain
  
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• (verb) close in

  "darkness enclosed him"

  synonyms : enclose , hold in

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Origin

• < French confiner < confins (plural) "boundaries" < Latin confinis "ending with" < finis "end"] added by bimal03

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