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Restricted vs Confine - What's the difference?

restricted | confine |

As adjectives the difference between restricted and confine

is that restricted is limited within bounds while confine is stale.

As a verb restricted

is (restrict).

restricted

English

Verb

(head)
  • (restrict)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Limited within bounds.
  • Available only to certain authorized groups of people.
  • One of the classifications of the secrecy of an official document.
  • (grammar) Qualified.
  • Anagrams

    *

    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 ----