confined
/kənˈfaɪnd/ adjective B2- Not free to move. · Mia was confined to her bedroom after suffering a broken leg.
- Limited; narrow; restricted.
- In a childbed.
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Danglars, too, had recognized the bandit, whose existence he would not believe when Albert de Morcerf mentioned him in Paris; and not only did he recognize him, but the cell in which Albert had been confined, and which was probably kept for the accommodation of strangers.
A FOX saw a Lion confined in a cage, and standing near him, bitterly reviled him.
When the young Prince saw this, his grief at being thus confined burst out afresh, and, standing near the lion, he said: “O you most detestable of animals!
He spoke Italian like a Tuscan, and Spanish like a Castilian; he would have been free, and happy with Mercédès and his father, whereas he was now confined in the Château d’If, that impregnable fortress, ignorant of the future destiny of his father and Mercédès; and all this because he had trusted to Villefort’s promise.
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