DICTOMETER

CONFINE

(confine, confín, limitar, begrense, forkorte, innskrenke, sammendra)

1. Synonyms:
   • Restrict
   • Restrain
   • Trammel
   • Limit
   • Bound
   • Confine
   • Throttle
   Definitions:
   • place limits on (extent or access)
   Examples:
   • Restrict the use of this parking lot
   • Limit the time you can spend with your friends
   Antonyms:
   free, liberate, release, unloose, unloosen, loose
   
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Limit
   • Circumscribe
   • Confine
   Definitions:
   • restrict or confine,
   Examples:
   • I limit you to two visits to the pub a day
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Confine
   Definitions:
   • prevent from leaving or from being removed
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Enclose
   • Hold in
   • Confine
   Definitions:
   • close in
   • darkness enclosed him
   Examples:
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Confine
   • Detain
   Definitions:
   • deprive of freedom
   • take into confinement
   
   
6. Synonyms:
   • Restrain
   • Confine
   • Hold
   Definitions:
   • to close within bounds, limit or hold back from movement
   Examples:
   • This holds the local until the express passengers change trains
   • About a dozen animals were held inside the stockade
   • The illegal immigrants were held at a detention center
   • The terrorists held the journalists for ransom