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con|fine

con|fine «verb. kuhn FYN; noun. KON fyn», verb, -fined, -fin|ing, noun.

–v.t.

1. to keep within limits; restrict: »He confined his reading to biography. He confined himself to two meals a day.
SYNONYM(S): restrain.

2. to keep indoors; shut in: »A cold confined him to the house.

3. to imprison: »For two years he was confined in the Bastille.
SYNONYM(S): jail.

–v.i.

Rare. to have a common boundary (with); border (on).

╂[< Middle French confiner < Old French confins; see the noun]

–n.

1. Often, confines. a) boundary; border; limit: »These people have never been beyond the confines of their own valley.
b) a border or frontier.

2. Obsolete. a) a region, territory. b) a place of confinement.

3. Archaic. confinement; limitation.

╂[< Old French confins boundaries, learned borrowing from Medieval Latin confines, ultimately < Latin < com- together + fīnis border]

–con|fin´a|ble, adjective.

–con|fine´less, adjective.

–con|fin´er, noun.

Useful english dictionary. 2012.