Place limits on (extent or access)
Close in; darkness enclosed him"
Deprive of freedom; take into confinement.
1 These days peddlers no longer have to confine themselves to a market.
2 It would have been difficult to confine a nuclear war to Cuba.
3 Tell Burt to confine his observations and reports to the experimental data.
4 They think the cell they've prepared will be able to confine him.
5 Place the hen upon the nest-eggs and confine her to the nest.
6 There was no point in asking the elves to confine their herd.
7 The Arabs still confine the name Ifrikia to the territory of Tunisia.
8 And in this matter he does not confine himself to material things.
9 Fortunately the General does not confine you to one shade of blue.
10 I confine myself quite simply to the three points of the narrative:-
11 We should confine ourselves to commercial wars as in the nineteenth century.
12 But it is better in these matters to confine oneself to generalities.
13 She was content to confine her dealings with him to the Net.
14 But the mischief did not confine itself to the English royal family.
15 No attempt was made to confine the investigation to the technical trial.
16 They might not have the means to confine the conspirators with safety.
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