Confine word meaning and definition
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Meaning and definition for "confine" word
[verb] restrict or confine, "I limit you to two visits to the pub a day"
[verb] to close within bounds, limit or hold back from movement; "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"
[verb] prevent from leaving or from being removed
[verb] deprive of freedom; take into confinement
[verb] close in or confine
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\Con"fine\ (? or ?); 277), v. i. To have a common boundary; to border; to lie contiguous; to touch; -- followed by on or with. [Obs.] Where your gloomy bounds Confine with heaven. --Milton. Bewixt heaven and earth and skies there stands a place. Confining on all three. --Dryden.
\Con"fine\, n. 1. Common boundary; border; limit; -- used chiefly in the plural. Events that came to pass within the confines of Judea. --Locke. And now in little space The confines met of empyrean heaven, And of this world. --Milton. On the confines of the city and the Temple. --Macaulay. 2. Apartment; place of restraint; prison. [Obs.] Confines, wards, and dungeons. --Shak. The extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine. --Shak.
Synonyms for confine
bound, circumscribe, detain, enclose, hold, hold in, limit, restrain, restrain, restrict, throttle, trammel
Antonyms: free, liberate, loose, release, unloose, unloosen
See also: border | box in | check | contain | content | delimit | fold | halter | incapacitate | keep down | lock | minify | number | pen up | pound up | rail in | reduce | shackle | shut away | shut up | straiten | strangle | tie down | tighten | truss |
Related terms: box, box up, cabin, drag, extremity, fence in, field, floor, go in for, hedge, high-water mark, limits, localize, minor in, narrow, orbit, pale, retard, scant, specialize, terminus, time allotment
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Let's analyse "confine" as pure text. This string has Seven letters in Two syllables and Three vowels. 42.9% of vowels is 4.3% more then average English word. Written in backwards: ENIFNOC. Average typing speed for these characters is 1885 milliseconds. [info]
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Numerology Hearts desire number calculated from vowels:
confine: 6 + 9 + 5 = 20, reduced: 2 . and the final result is Two. |
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