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Confine vs Coarctate - What's the difference?

confine | coarctate |

As adjectives the difference between confine and coarctate

is that confine is stale while coarctate is (anatomy) constricted, narrowed or compressed.

As a verb coarctate is

(obsolete) to press together; to crowd.

confine

English

Verb

(confin)
  • To restrict; to keep within bounds; to shut or keep in a limited space or area.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Now let not nature's hand / Keep the wild flood confined ! let order die!
  • * Dryden
    • He is to confine himself to the compass of numbers and the slavery of rhyme.
  • To have a common boundary; to border; to lie contiguous; to touch; followed by on'' or ''with .
  • * Milton
    • Where your gloomy bounds / Confine with heaven
  • * Dryden
    • Betwixt heaven and earth and skies there stands a place / Confining on all three.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Limit.

    • Synonyms

    * (limit) border, bound, limit English heteronyms ----

    coarctate

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (anatomy) constricted, narrowed or compressed
  • (entomology, of a pupa) enclosed in a rigid case

    • Verb

    (coarctat)
  • (obsolete) To press together; to crowd.
  • (obsolete) To restrain; to confine.

    • Related terms

    * coarctation ----