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(of a space) Restricted in area or volume
“In modern usage an artesian well is any well in which the water level rises above the top of the confined aquifer to which the well is open.”
Captured and held as a convict or prisoner
In childbirth
Dwelling or raised in, or as if in, cloisters
Pertaining to a small town
Placed within
Shackled
Uncomfortably humid or airless
That has been the object of punishment
Repressed or suppressed, especially of emotions or impulses
Surrounded by a frame
In quarantine
Kept in one's possession
Not complete or absolute
Made incapable of use or action
Affected by a disease or illness
Of a prisoner, mentally unbalanced due to prolonged incarceration
Restricted to one's home, as by physical infirmity
Restricted to the person, group, or area concerned
Characterized by exaggerated or affected politeness, refinement, or respectability
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 shut off or keep apart, as from company, society, etc.
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 hurt, incapacitate
Past tense for to make or become rigidly fixed or immovable
Past tense for make legally null and void
Past tense for to reduce (something) in extent or quantity
Past tense for to cover an opening
Past tense for to commit, confide to another's care, confidence or acceptance, with favoring representations
Past tense for be very economical or mean about spending or providing something
Past tense for to penalize someone for a punishable offense
Past tense for to squeeze or pack tightly into a specified space
(close around or over) Past tense for to come into contact with (something) so as to encircle and hold it
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