confine

UK /kənˈfaɪn/ US /kənˈfaɪn/
verb 2noun 2

Definitions

verb

1

To have a common boundary with; to border on.

Where your gloomy bounds / Confine with heaven

Betwixt heaven and earth and skies there stands a place / Confining on all three.

2

To restrict (someone or something) to a particular scope or area; to keep in or within certain bounds.

Now let not nature's hand / Keep the wild flood confined! let order die!

1680, John Dryden, Ovid’s Epistles translated by several hands, London: Jacob Tonson, Preface, He is to confine himself to the compass of numbers and the slavery of rhyme.

noun

1

A boundary or limit.

2

Confinement, imprisonment.

She says for you to bring her a slice of cake, A bottle of the best wine, And not to forget the fair young lady That did release you from close confine.

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