## Meanings
1. To keep something within certain limits.
2. To keep a person or animal in a place they cannot leave.
3. The state of being shut in or imprisoned.

## Examples
- Please confine your comments to the topic we are discussing.
- The injury confined him to bed for a week.
- After years of close confine, he longed for open space.

## Derived Forms
- confinable
- confination
- confinee
- confineless
- deconfine
- reconfine
- unconfine

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: confiner
- Root: confines
- Root: confinium

## Etymology
From Middle French confiner, from confins, from Medieval Latin confines, from Latin confinium, from confīnis.

## AI Etymology
confine is a verb and noun. It is from Middle French confiner, from confins, from Medieval Latin confines, from Latin confinium, from confīnis. Historical forms in the chain include confiner (Middle French), confines (Medieval Latin), and confinium (Latin). Current senses include to keep something within certain limits, to keep a person or animal in a place they cannot leave, and the state of being shut in or imprisoned. Derived forms include confinable, confination, confinee, confineless, and deconfine.

## Topics
- Space, Position & Direction

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