confine
/kənˈfaɪn/ verb B2- To restrict (someone or something) to a particular scope or area; to keep in or within certain bounds.
He/she/it confines · Past confined · Past participle confined · -ing form confining
Verb forms
- Base form
- confine
- He/she/it
- confines
- Past
- confined
- Past participle
- confined
- -ing form
- confining
From the library
“You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a headache, when your stepfather comes back.
‘You see it is really confined to Londoners, and to grown men.
“There _is_ something a little stately in him, to be sure,” replied her aunt; “but it is confined to his air, and is not unbecoming.
A severe and unseasonable attack of grippe had confined that good lady to her house ever since the occasion of her last visit to Green Gables.
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