confine

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to restrict or confine

   The doctor confined me to bed.

2. 2
   verb

   to close within bounds, limit or hold back from movement

   I confined the inmate to solitary.

3. 3
   verb

   to prevent from leaving or from being removed

   They were confined to the jail cell.

4. 4
   verb

   to deprive of freedom

   take into confinement

5. 5
   verb

   To have a common boundary with; to border on.

   Where your gloomy bounds / Confine with heaven

6. 6
   verb

   To restrict (someone or something) to a particular scope or area; to keep in or within certain bounds.

   Now let not nature's hand / Keep the wild flood confined! let order die!

7. 7
   noun

   Confinement, imprisonment.

   She says for you to bring her a slice of cake, A bottle of the best wine, And not to forget the fair young lady That did release you from close confine.

8. 8
   verb

   to place limits on extent or access

Etymology

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