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Meanings of confine in English

Portuguese
conter
Catalan
sostenir-se
Spanish
sujetar

Place limits on (extent or access)

      conter
      Catalan
      confinar
      Spanish
      cercar

      Close in; darkness enclosed him"

            confinar
            Catalan
            empresonar
            Spanish
            confinar

            Deprive of freedom; take into confinement.

                empresonar
                Usage of confine in English
                1
                These days peddlers no longer have to confine themselves to a market.
                Death of a Red Heroine
                2
                It would have been difficult to confine a nuclear war to Cuba.
                One minute to midnight: kennedy, khrushchev, and castro on the b...
                3
                Tell Burt to confine his observations and reports to the experimental data.
                Flowers for Algernon
                4
                They think the cell they've prepared will be able to confine him.
                The Reality Dysfunction
                5
                Place the hen upon the nest-eggs and confine her to the nest.
                The Dollar Hen
                6
                There was no point in asking the elves to confine their herd.
                The brazen gambit
                7
                The Arabs still confine the name Ifrikia to the territory of Tunisia.
                The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
                8
                And in this matter he does not confine himself to material things.
                Love's Final Victory / Ultimate Universal Salvation on the Basis...
                9
                Fortunately the General does not confine you to one shade of blue.
                Betty Trevor
                10
                I confine myself quite simply to the three points of the narrative:-
                Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. Luke
                11
                We should confine ourselves to commercial wars as in the nineteenth century.
                The new yorker
                12
                But it is better in these matters to confine oneself to generalities.
                Phineas Finn / The Irish Member
                13
                She was content to confine her dealings with him to the Net.
                The girl who kicked the hornet's nest
                14
                But the mischief did not confine itself to the English royal family.
                Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 2
                15
                No attempt was made to confine the investigation to the technical trial.
                The Gray Dawn
                16
                They might not have the means to confine the conspirators with safety.
                The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume VIII. / Interviews
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                Common
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