CONFINE meaning: Restrict within limits or boundaries

We found 33 dictionaries that define the word confine:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

confine: Merriam-Webster
confine: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
confine: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
confine: Collins English Dictionary
confine: Vocabulary.com
Confine, confine: Wordnik
confine: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
confine: Wiktionary
confine: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
confine: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
confine: Infoplease Dictionary
confine: Dictionary.com
confine: Online Etymology Dictionary
confine: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Confine: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Confine: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
confine: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
confine: Rhymezone
confine, confine: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
confine: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
confine: FreeDictionary.org
confine: Mnemonic Dictionary
confine: TheFreeDictionary.com
confine: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (4 matching dictionaries)

confine: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
confine: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

confine: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

confine: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

confine: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ verb:  (obsolete) To have a common boundary with; to border on.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To restrict (someone or something) to a particular scope or area; to keep in or within certain bounds.
▸ noun:  (chiefly in the plural) A boundary or limit.
▸ noun:  (poetic) Confinement, imprisonment.

Similar:

bound, enclose, circumscribe, restrain, restrict, trammel, hold, throttle, hold in, detain, more...

Opposite:

liberate, release, freed, unleash

Types:

prison, jail, penitentiary, stockade, cage, custody, detention, confinement, restraint, more...

Phrases:

restrict or confine, confine away from others, opposite of confine, to confine, confine or constrain, more...

Adjectives:

narrow, strict, solitary, ill, close, proud, poor, northern, doubtful, small, eastern

Colors:

gray, black, dark blue, charcoal, taupe, more...