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1. Restricting the scope or freedom of action
   - constraining, constrictive, limiting, restricting
    
2. In close proximity; crowded
   "confining quarters"
   - close

1. Place limits on (extent or access)
   "confine the use of this parking lot"
   - restrict, restrain, trammel, limit, bound, throttle
    
2. Restrict or confine
   - limit, circumscribe
    
3. Prevent from leaving or from being removed
    
4. Close in
   "darkness confined him"
   - enclose, hold in
    
5. Deprive of freedom; take into confinement
   - detain
    
6. Limit to within certain bounds; physically prevent from moving
   "This confines the local until the express passengers change trains"
   - restrain, hold

See also: confined, confinement, restrictive

Type of: bear, carry, check, contain, control, curb, decrease, disable, disenable, hold, hold back, hold in, incapacitate, keep, keep back, lessen, minify, moderate, restrain

Antonym: free