contained
/kənˈteɪnd/ adjective B1- Restricted in space. · The brush fire is now contained: if it doesn't jump the lines, it will burn itself out.
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There were four walls, a floor and a roof, which made one room; and this room contained a rusty looking cookstove, a cupboard for the dishes, a table, three or four chairs, and the beds.
“Now, would anybody think that this room contained a happy, merry party, who desire nothing better than to laugh and dance the hours away?”
“Now,” said the deputy, “answer me frankly, not as a prisoner to a judge, but as one man to another who takes an interest in him, what truth is there in the accusation contained in this anonymous letter?” And Villefort threw disdainfully on his desk the letter Dantès had just given back to him.
When he reached it, he discovered to his grief that it contained so little water that he could not possibly get at it.
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