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Definitions for Confining

[1] to enclose within bounds; limit or restrict: She confined her remarks to errors in the report. Confine your efforts to finishing the book.
[2] to shut or keep in; prevent from leaving a place because of imprisonment, illness, discipline, etc.: For that offense he was confined to quarters for 30 days.
[3] Usually confines. a boundary or bound; limit; border; frontier.
[4] Often confines. region; territory.
[5] Archaic . confinement.
[6] Obsolete . a place of confinement; prison.
[7] to keep or close within bounds; limit; restrict
[8] to keep shut in; restrict the free movement of arthritis confined him to bed
[9] (often plural) a limit; boundary

Words related to Confining

confinebounding

Words nearby Confining

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Origin of Confining

e1350–1400 for noun; 1515–25 for v.; (noun) Middle English < Middle French confins, confines < Medieval Latin confinia, plural of Latin confinis boundary, border (see con-, fine2); (v.) < Middle French confiner, verbal derivative of confins < Latin, as above

Other words from Confining

con·fin·a·ble , con·fine·a·ble , adjective
con·fine·less , adjective
con·fin·er , noun
non·con·fin·ing , adjective
pre·con·fine , verb (used with object), pre·con·fined, pre·con·fin·ing.
qua·si-con·fin·ing , adjective
re·con·fine , verb (used with object), re·con·fined, re·con·fin·ing.
self-con·fin·ing , adjective
un·con·fin·a·ble , adjective
un·con·fin·ing , adjective

Word origin for Confining

eC16: from Medieval Latin confīnāre from Latin confīnis adjacent, from fīnis end, boundary

Synonyms for Confining

bounding, detaining, enclosing, imprisoning, restraining