confined

Definition

  • adjective: very small
  • adjective: undergoing childbirth
  • synonyms: fenced in, penned, captive

Examples

  • The cancer was 'confined to' the lung. [=the cancer was only in the lung; the cancer had not spread to any other parts of the body]

  • I regularly visit a sick neighbor who 'is confined' at home. [=who cannot leave home because of being sick]

  • The city's poverty is not 'confined to' just one neighborhood.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) Speak, I'll go no further Speak, I am bound to hear I am thy father's spirit Doomed for a certain term to walk the night, and for the day confined to fast in fires... ...till the foul crimes done in my days of nature are burnt and purged away But that I am forbid to tell the secrets (..)
    2015 Hamlet