Confine | Mean of confine in English Dictionary

/kənˈfaɪn/

• Verb
• to keep (someone or something) within limits
1. Please confine [=restrict, limit] your comments to 200 words.
2. 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]
3. We must confine ourselves to the agenda we've agreed on for this meeting. [=we must only talk about what is on the agenda]
4. The town would like to confine commercial development to an area by the highway.
5. Students need not confine themselves to a single area of study.
6. The city's poverty is not confined to just one neighborhood.
• to keep (a person or animal) in a place (such as a prison)
1. Violent criminals are sometimes confined for life.
2. a camp where prisoners were confined during the war
3. She was confined to a psychiatric hospital for a year.
4. The bull was confined in a pen behind the barn.
• to force or cause (someone) to stay in something (such as a bed or wheelchair)
1. I regularly visit a sick neighbor who is confined at home. [=who cannot leave home because of being sick]
2. He was confined to a wheelchair.
3. She was confined to bed for a week with the flu.