Definition of confine

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Confine (v. i.) To have a common boundary; to border; to lie contiguous; to touch; -- followed by on or with.

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Pin :: Pin (v. t.) To inclose; to confine; to pen; to pound.
Straiten :: Straiten (v. t.) To make strait; to make narrow; hence, to contract; to confine..
Suburb :: Suburb (n.) An outlying part of a city or town; a smaller place immediately adjacent to a city; in the plural, the region which is on the confines of any city or large town; as, a house stands in the suburbs; a garden situated in the suburbs of Paris..
Clausure :: Clausure (n.) The act of shutting up or confining; confinement.
Bond :: Bond (n.) That which binds, ties, fastens, or confines, or by which anything is fastened or bound, as a cord, chain, etc.; a band; a ligament; a shackle or a manacle..
Decumbiture :: Decumbiture (n.) Confinement to a sick bed, or time of taking to one's bed from sickness..
Include :: Include (v. t.) To confine within; to hold; to contain; to shut up; to inclose; as, the shell of a nut includes the kernel; a pearl is included in a shell..
Limitary :: Limitary (v. t.) Confined within limits; limited in extent, authority, power, etc..
Tie :: Tie (v. t.) To hold or constrain by authority or moral influence, as by knotted cords; to oblige; to constrain; to restrain; to confine..
Hold :: Hold (n.) A place of confinement; a prison; confinement; custody; guard.
Hamleted :: Hamleted (p. a.) Confined to a hamlet.
Restringe :: Restringe (v. t.) To confine; to contract; to stringe.
Free :: Free (a.) To make free; to set at liberty; to rid of that which confines, limits, embarrasses, oppresses, etc.; to release; to disengage; to clear; -- followed by from, and sometimes by off; as, to free a captive or a slave; to be freed of these inconveniences..
Intern :: Intern (a.) To put for safe keeping in the interior of a place or country; to confine to one locality; as, to intern troops which have fled for refuge to a neutral country..
Captive :: Captive (a.) Made prisoner, especially in war; held in bondage or in confinement..
March :: March (n.) A territorial border or frontier; a region adjacent to a boundary line; a confine; -- used chiefly in the plural, and in English history applied especially to the border land on the frontiers between England and Scotland, and England and Wales..
Bedlam :: Bedlam (n.) A place appropriated to the confinement and care of the insane; a madhouse.
Precinct :: Precinct (n.) The limit or exterior line encompassing a place; a boundary; a confine; limit of jurisdiction or authority; -- often in the plural; as, the precincts of a state..
Imprison Ment :: Imprison ment (n.) The act of imprisoning, or the state of being imprisoned; confinement; restraint..
Landlocked :: Landlocked (a.) Confined to a fresh-water lake by reason of waterfalls or dams; -- said of fishes that would naturally seek the sea, after spawning; as, the landlocked salmon..
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