confine
See also: confiné
English
Etymology
From Middle French confiner, from confins, from Medieval Latin confines, from Latin confinium, from Latin confīnis.
Pronunciation
- (verb) enPR: kənfīnʹ, IPA(key): /kənˈfaɪn/
- (noun)
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkɒnfaɪn/
- (US) enPR: känʹfīn, IPA(key): /ˈkɑnfaɪn/
- Rhymes: -aɪn
Verb
confine (third-person singular simple present confines, present participle confining, simple past and past participle confined)
- (transitive) To restrict; to keep within bounds; to shut or keep in a limited space or area.
- (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare
- Now let not nature's hand / Keep the wild flood confined! let order die!
- (Can we date this quote?) Dryden
- He is to confine himself to the compass of numbers and the slavery of rhyme.
- (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare
- To have a common boundary; to border; to lie contiguous; to touch; followed by on or with.
- (Can we date this quote?) John Milton
- Where your gloomy bounds / Confine with heaven
- (Can we date this quote?) Dryden
- Betwixt heaven and earth and skies there stands a place / Confining on all three.
- (Can we date this quote?) John Milton
Translations
to restrict; to keep within bounds
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detain — see detain
lock up — see lock up
arrest — see arrest
imprison — see imprison
incarcerate — see incarcerate
Derived terms
Translations
limit
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Synonyms
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Verb
confine
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of confinar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of confinar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of confinar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of confinar.
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