Concept cluster: Activities > Confinement or restriction
adj
restricted or confined; especially, in old Scottish law, describing land on which corn must be sent to a particular mill, paying multure or thirlage on it
v
To confine as though in a bastille; to imprison.
adj
Unable to leave one's bed for some reason.
adj
(dialectal) Hedged about.
v
To limit someone's freedom of thought, movement, expression, etc.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To earn; deserve.
adj
Confined at close quarters
adj
Confined in a cage.
v
To confine to campus as a punishment.
v
(rare) To imprison or confine
adj
Confined to a prison cell.
v
To act as a curb or restraint.
n
A sudden repressive or punitive restriction or control
adj
Strictly confined; carefully guarded.
adj
(simile, colloquial) miserly, tight, or secretive
adj
(of a group) Closely linked or connected, as by a common identity, culture, or bond.
adj
(figuratively) In secret; in private.
n
Any of several settlements in Russia that have travel and residency restrictions
n
A relatively small closed city
n
A visit by a member of the public to a prisoner during which no physical contact is permitted.
adj
(obsolete) Involving close proximity.
adj
Confined.
adj
Not free to move.
n
An enclosed area with limited space and accessibility.
n
a person confined; a person held in confinement.
n
lockdown
n
One who is ordered to keep within certain limits.
v
(transitive) To put constraint upon; to restrain; to confine; to keep within bounds.
n
(obsolete, uncountable, countable) Something contained.
adj
Confined to a couch, or refusing to move from it.
n
Obsolete form of curfew. [Any regulation requiring people to be off the streets and in their homes by a certain time.]
adj
Subject to a curfew
v
(transitive, figuratively) To limit or restrict, keep in check.
n
(archaic) A boundary around a prison, prisoners crossing which would be shot.
v
(transitive) To imprison in a dungeon.
n
(archaic) Imprisonment; forced confinement.
adj
Confined to the Earth; unable to leave Earth, either physically or spiritually.
v
To draw to or into one's bosom; to treasure.
v
(transitive) To put in jail.
v
(obsolete) To imprison.
adj
(by extension) Restricted.
adj
Subjected to footbinding.
v
To remain indoors, usually understood as being in a tightly closed room.
v
(transitive) To punish, especially a child or teenager, by not allowing them to go out.
v
To confine (a specified group of people) to a ghetto.
adj
(of a person, predicative) Confined to stay inside, typically by a parent, as a punishment.
adj
Confined to one's home, unable to leave it for some reason.
adj
Restricted to one's home, as by physical infirmity.
v
Obsolete form of hide. [(transitive) To put (something) in a place where it will be harder to discover or out of sight.]
adj
imprisoned or confined.
v
(transitive) To put in or as if in prison; confine somebody against their will.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To house; to lodge.
v
To confine (someone) to a straitjacket.
adj
Restricted to the land; unable to enter the sea, sky, etc.
n
Alternative form of lockdown [The confinement of people in their own rooms (e.g., in a school) or cells (in a prison), or to their own homes or areas (e.g., in the case of a city- or nation-wide issue) as a security measure after or amid a disturbance or as a non-pharmaceutical intervention in a pandemic.]
adj
Confined in, or as if in, a pen; imprisoned.
v
To confine in, or as in, a pound; to impound.
n
(figuratively) The means of restricting access to the financial resources.
adj
In quarantine; isolated.
n
One who is quarantined.
v
Obsolete form of rank. [To place abreast, or in a line.]
adj
Confined to a location, as by infirmity or illness.
adj
Close; secret; private.
n
(by extension) the limit of one's abilities, resources etc.
v
(intransitive) To be located in a remote, inaccessible or difficult-to-see spot.
v
To support or uphold, especially from beneath; sustain.

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