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1. A bounded scope
   "he stayed within the confines of the city"

1. Place limits on (extent, amount or access)
   "confine the use of this parking lot";
   - restrict, trammel, limit, bound, throttle
    
2. Prevent from leaving or from being removed
    
3. Close in
   "darkness confined him";
   - enclose, hold in
    
4. Deprive of freedom; take into confinement
   - detain
    
5. To close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement
   "This confines the local until the express passengers change trains";
   - restrain, hold, constrain

Type of: ambit, bear, carry, compass, contain, disable, disenable, hold, hold back, incapacitate, keep, keep back, orbit, range, reach, restrain, scope

Antonym: unloose

Encyclopedia: Confines