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(of a space) Restricted in area or volume
“Our liturgical chant would reverberate intensely within the tightly confined space.”
Captured and held as a convict or prisoner
“The certificate shall be presented to a judge of a court of record in the other state having jurisdiction over the confined prisoner.”
Confined to a bed while being in the final stages of pregnancy
“I will be confined until I deliver.”
Confined to bed because of infirmity or illness
“She was very sick and confined to her bed.”
Limited in size, amount or extent
Dwelling or raised in, or as if in, cloisters
Characterized by the repression of thoughts, desires or actions
Pertaining to a small town
Joined together by fusing
Being contained or placed within (something)
Delimited or surrounded, e.g. by a border of sorts
Uncomfortably humid or airless
In quarantine
Kept in one's possession
Not complete or absolute
Affected by a disease or illness
Restricted to one's home, as by physical infirmity
Restricted or stymied from progressing or producing results
Captured and held as a convict or prisoner
Past tense for to imprison or incarcerate someone
“There is a danger that his enemies will confine him in prison most of his life, and it will cause him to be poor, gloomy and despondent.”
Past tense for to enclose or hem in (on all sides)
“They were able to forbid processions by employing troops and police to confine the demonstrations within very narrow limits.”
Past tense for to confine or keep within certain limits or boundaries
“Some of the greatest English sonneteers have felt the laws of the Italian sonnet confine their freedom of thought and expression unduly.”
Past tense for to keep within certain limits
Past tense for to shut off or keep apart, as from company, society, etc.
Past tense for to restrain with chains or manacles
Past tense for to crush by being too tight, such as a foot by a shoe
Past tense for to become or make less wide
Past tense for to make or become rigidly fixed or immovable
Past tense for to reduce (something) in extent or quantity
Past tense for to commit, confide to another's care, confidence or acceptance, with favoring representations
Past tense for to squeeze or pack tightly into a small or restricted space
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