CONFINE
\kənfˈa͡ɪn], \kənfˈaɪn], \k_ə_n_f_ˈaɪ_n]\
Definitions of CONFINE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 2010 - Legal Glossary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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close in or confine
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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"
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deprive of freedom; take into confinement
By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To restrain within limits; to restrict; to limit; to bound; to shut up; to inclose; to keep close.
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To have a common boundary; to border; to lie contiguous; to touch; -- followed by on or with.
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Common boundary; border; limit; -- used chiefly in the plural.
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Apartment; place of restraint; prison.
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See Imprison.
By Oddity Software
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A boundary or limit; a frontier; usually plural; as, to keep within the confines of the country.
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To restrict within limits; imprison; to keep in the house by sickness.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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