en
confine

Meaning: en
to limit an activity, person, or problem in some way
He's still confined to bed.
Argentina will break the record for the longest, and also the most restrictive, confinement.
The warden sent Dan back to solitary confinement.
Tom is still confined to bed.
We remarked with pain that the indecent foreign dance called the Waltz was introduced (we believe for the first time) at the English court on Friday last ... it is quite sufficient to cast one's eyes on the voluptuous intertwining of the limbs and close compressure on the bodies in their dance, to see that it is indeed far removed from the modest reserve which has hitherto been considered distinctive of English females. So long as this obscene display was confined to prostitutes and adulteresses, we did not think it deserving of notice; but now that it is attempted to be forced on the respectable classes of society by the civil examples of their superiors, we feel it a duty to warn every parent against exposing his daughter to so fatal a contagion.
Tom has been confined to bed for the past three months.
A cold confined him to his house.
Yanni lives in a somewhat confined area of Algeria.
Tom is confined to bed now.
His world was gloomy; but he did not know that, for he knew no other world. It was dim-lighted; but his eyes had never had to adjust themselves to any other light. His world was very small. Its limits were the walls of the lair; but as he had no knowledge of the wide world outside, he was never oppressed by the narrow confines of his existence.
Added on 2021-11-03 | by Riley | View: 207

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