confine

Definition

  • noun: something (as borders or walls) that encloses
  • verb: to keep (someone or something) within limits
  • verb: to hold within a location
  • usually + 'to'
  • synonyms: border, limit, inclose

Examples

  • She thinks the corporate world is dull and 'confining'. [='restrictive']

  • This coat feels too 'confining'. [='tight']

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) I have heard, the cock, ...doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat awake the god of day, and at his warning... ...whether in sea or fire, in earth or air, the itinerant and erring spirit hies to his confine And of the truth therein their witness now doth make probation - 'Tis very strange (..)
    2015 Hamlet