confine

confine is a 7-letter English word with 10 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To restrain within limits; to restrict; to limit; to bound; to shut up; to inclose; to keep close. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 15 · 10 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To restrain within limits; to restrict; to limit; to bound; to shut up; to inclose; to keep close.
2. intransitive verb. To have a common boundary; to border; to lie contiguous; to touch; -- followed by on or with.
3. noun. Common boundary; border; limit; -- used chiefly in the plural.
4. noun. Apartment; place of restraint; prison.
5. verb. place limits on (extent or access)

   "restrict the use of this parking lot"

   "limit the time you can spend with your friends"

   Synonyms: bound, limit, restrain, restrict, throttle, trammel

6. verb. restrict or confine, "I limit you to two visits to the pub a day"

   Synonyms: circumscribe, limit

7. verb. to close within bounds, limit or hold back from movement

   "This holds the local until the express passengers change trains"

   "About a dozen animals were held inside the stockade"

   Synonyms: hold, restrain

8. verb. prevent from leaving or from being removed
9. verb. deprive of freedom; take into confinement

   Synonyms: detain

10. verb. close in; darkness enclosed him"

    Synonyms: enclose

Synonyms

bound, limit, restrain, restrict, throttle, trammel, circumscribe, hold, detain, enclose

Common word forms

confined, confiner, confines, confining, confineable, confineless, confinement

Words from these letters

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