All confine synonyms
conΒ·fine
C c verb confine
- incarcerate β to imprison; confine.
- hinder β to cause delay, interruption, or difficulty in; hamper; impede: The storm hindered our progress.
- detain β When people such as the police detain someone, they keep them in a place under their control.
- restrict β to confine or keep within limits, as of space, action, choice, intensity, or quantity.
- restrain β to hold back from action; keep in check or under control; repress: to restrain one's temper.
- imprison β to confine in or as if in a prison.
- jail β a prison, especially one for the detention of persons awaiting trial or convicted of minor offenses.
- constrain β To constrain someone or something means to limit their development or force them to behave in a particular way.
- hog-tie β If someone hog-ties an animal or a person, they tie their legs together, or they tie their arms and legs together.
- bar β A bar is a place where you can buy and drink alcoholic drinks.
- cramp β Cramp is a sudden strong pain caused by a muscle suddenly contracting. You sometimes get cramp in a muscle after you have been making a physical effort over a long period of time.
- bound β Bound is the past tense and past participle of bind.
- delimit β If you delimit something, you fix or establish its limits.
- bind β If something binds people together, it makes them feel as if they are all part of the same group or have something in common.
- fix β to repair; mend.
- shorten β to make short or shorter.
- immure β to enclose within walls.
- ice β the solid form of water, produced by freezing; frozen water.
- repress β to keep under control, check, or suppress (desires, feelings, actions, tears, etc.).
- intern β to restrict to or confine within prescribed limits, as prisoners of war, enemy aliens, or combat troops who take refuge in a neutral country.
- circumscribe β If someone's power or freedom is circumscribed, it is limited or restricted.
- keep β to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
- cage β A cage is a structure of wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
- cool β Something that is cool has a temperature which is low but not very low.
- limit β the final, utmost, or furthest boundary or point as to extent, amount, continuance, procedure, etc.: the limit of his experience; the limit of vision.
- curb β If you curb something, you control it and keep it within limits.
- narrow β of little breadth or width; not broad or wide; not as wide as usual or expected: a narrow path.
- sequester β to remove or withdraw into solitude or retirement; seclude.
- quarantine β a strict isolation imposed to prevent the spread of disease.
- lock up β a device for securing a door, gate, lid, drawer, or the like in position when closed, consisting of a bolt or system of bolts propelled and withdrawn by a mechanism operated by a key, dial, etc.
- impound β to shut up in a pound or other enclosure, as a stray animal.
- shut in β closed; fastened up: a shut door.
- hold back β to elude or evade by a sudden shift of position or by strategy: to dodge a blow; to dodge a question.
- put away β to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
- shut up β to put (a door, cover, etc.) in position to close or obstruct.
- cool down β If someone cools down or if you cool them down, they become less angry than they were.
- hem in β to fold back and sew down the edge of (cloth, a garment, etc.); form an edge or border on or around.
- send up β an entertaining or humorous burlesque or parody; takeoff: The best skit in the revue was a send-up of TV game shows.
noun confine
- nib β his/her nibs, Informal: Often Facetious. a person in authority, especially one who is demanding and tyrannical: His nibs wants fresh strawberries in December.
- demarcation β Demarcation is the establishment of boundaries or limits separating two areas, groups, or things.
- nibs β the point of a pen, or either of its divisions.
- selvage β the edge of woven fabric finished so as to prevent raveling, often in a narrow tape effect, different from the body of the fabric.
- butt end β butt1 (defs 1, 2).
- rim β the outer edge, border, margin, or brink of something, especially of a circular object.
- border β The border between two countries or regions is the dividing line between them. Sometimes the border also refers to the land close to this line.
- delimitation β delimit.
- term β a word or phrase that has a specific or precise meaning within a given discipline or field and might have a different meaning in common usage: Set is a term of art used by mathematicians, and burden of proof is a term of art used by lawyers.
- margin β the space around the printed or written matter on a page.
- neb β a bill or beak, as of a bird.