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confined

/kənˈfaɪnd/ adjective B2
  1. Not free to move. · Mia was confined to her bedroom after suffering a broken leg.
  2. Limited; narrow; restricted. (figuratively)
  3. 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.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 1074 · C1
In a country neighbourhood you move in a very confined and unvarying society.”
Pride and Prejudice, p. 46 · B2
“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.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 289 · B2
They were confined for the evening at different tables; and she had nothing to hope, but that his eyes were so often turned towards her side of the room, as to make him play as unsuccessfully as herself.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 321 · B2

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