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confine | confines |

As an adjective confine

is stale.

As a verb confines is

.

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 ----

    confines

    English

    Noun

    (en-plural noun)
  • The borders or limits of an area.
  • Elements that restrain someone.
  • The scope or range of a subject.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (confine)
    • ----