Withhold vs Confine - What's the difference?

Withhold is a related term of confine.

is to keep (a physical object that one has obtained) to oneself rather than giving it back to its owner.

stale.

To keep (a physical object that one has obtained) to oneself rather than giving it back to its owner.

To keep (information, etc) to oneself rather than revealing it.

To retain; to keep back; not to grant; as, to withhold assent to a proposition.

* retain

* overwithhold * underwithhold

(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.

(en noun)

Limit.

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