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to limit an activity, person, or problem in some way: Let's confine our discussion to the matter in question, please! Please confine your use of the phone to business calls. By closing the infected farms we're hoping to confine the disease to the north of the region (= stop it from spreading to other areas). C2 [ T usually passive ]
1. : kept within confines: such as. a. : limited to a particular location. confined to bed. b. : held captive. confined prisoners. 2. : very small. confined spaces. a confined compartment. 3. dated : undergoing childbirth.
limit, restrict, circumscribe, confine mean to set bounds for. limit implies setting a point or line (as in time, space, speed, or degree) beyond which something cannot or is not permitted to go. visits are limited to 30 minutes.
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to keep someone closed in a place, often by force: The hostages had been confined for so long that they couldn't cope with the outside world. be confined to somewhere/something. to exist only in a particular area or group of people: We know that the illness is not confined to any one group in society. See more.
adjective. limited or restricted. unable to leave a place because of illness, imprisonment, etc. being in childbirth; being in parturition. confined. / kənˈfaɪnd; kənˈfaɪnɪdlɪ /.
Confine definition: to enclose within bounds; limit or restrict. See examples of CONFINE used in a sentence.
1. to keep or close within bounds; limit; restrict. 2. to keep shut in; restrict the free movement of. arthritis confined him to bed. noun (ˈkɒnfaɪn ) 3. (often plural) a limit; boundary. Collins English Dictionary.
