confine
/kənˈfɑɪn/ v [T]Definition
› to keep someone or something within limits: The animals were confined in a large pen. Harris does not confine her stage work to Broadway. › If something is confined to a particular group of people, it exists only among them: Cancer is not confined to old people. confined /kənˈfɑɪnd/ adj › You can’t keep kids in a confined space for long. confinement /kənˈfɑɪn·mənt/ n [U] › He was tired of the constant confinement of his office.
(Definition of confine v from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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