Confine
To restrain within limits; to restrict; to limit; to bound; to shut up; to inclose; to keep close.
To have a common boundary; to border; to lie contiguous; to touch; -- followed by on or with.
Common boundary; border; limit; -- used chiefly in the plural.
Apartment; place of restraint; prison.
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Confine Quotations
I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.
Winston Churchill
Confine yourself to the present.
Marcus Aurelius
To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.
Stephen Hawking
Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.
Charles de Lint
If you confine it, you're confining a whole thing. If you make it spontaneous, so that anything can happen, like we don't want to confine or restrict anything. What we can do, whatever we can let happen, you just let it happen.
Alice Cooper
An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there.
Edward Young
With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue.
Nassau William Senior
In the early days of his reign, Bismarck confided to a friend that it would some day be necessary for Germany to confine William II in an insane asylum.
Kelly Miller
Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing.
Oscar Peterson
So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.
George Berkeley
Confine Translations
confine in Dutch is begrenzen, beperken, beknotten
confine in French is accouchons, accouchez, confinent, confinez
confine in Latin is coerceo, cohibeo, contineo
confine in Norwegian is begrense
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