Word Meanings - CONFINE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To restrain within limits; to restrict; to limit; to bound; to shut up; to inclose; to keep close. Now let not nature's hand Keep the wild flood confined! let order die! Shak. He is to confine himself to the compass of numbers and the slavery of

Additional info about word: CONFINE

To restrain within limits; to restrict; to limit; to bound; to shut up; to inclose; to keep close. Now let not nature's hand Keep the wild flood confined! let order die! Shak. He is to confine himself to the compass of numbers and the slavery of rhyme. Dryden. To be confined, to be in childbed. Syn. -- To bound; limit; restrain; imprison; immure; inclose; circumscribe; restrict.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CONFINE)

• Border
• Limit
• boundary
• brink
• rim
• verge
• brim
• edge
• edging
• band
• hem
• enclosure
• confine
• BOUND Confine
• limit
• circumscribe
• terminate
• restrict
• restrain
• Cage
• Imprison
• immure
• incarcerate
• cabin
• crib
• Circumscribe
• Define
• designate
• delineate
• enclose
• fence
• Coerce
• Restrain
• inhibit
• impel
• compel
• drive
• counteract
• check
• constrain
• force
• intimidate

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of CONFINE)

• Loose
• liberate
• instigate
• accelerate
• license
• indulge
• allow
• abet
• Decline
• deviate
• revert
• depart
• recede
• return
• back
• retrocede

Related words: (words related to CONFINE)

• FENCE MONTH
  the month in which female deer are fawning, when hunting is prohibited. Bullokar. -- Fence roof, a covering for defense. "They fitted their shields close to one another in manner of a fence roof." Holland. Fence time, the breeding time of fish or
• CHECKWORK
  Anything made so as to form alternate squares lke those of a checkerboard.
• FORCE
  To stuff; to lard; to farce. Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. Shak.
• VERGER
  One who carries a verge, or emblem of office. Specifically: -- An attendant upon a dignitary, as on a bishop, a dean, a justice, etc. Strype. The official who takes care of the interior of a church building.
• COUNTERACTIVE
  Tending to counteract.
• INHIBITORY
  Of or pertaining to, or producing, inhibition; consisting in inhibition; tending or serving to inhibit; as, the inhibitory action of the pneumogastric on the respiratory center. I would not have you consider these criticisms as inhibitory. Lamb.
• BOUNDLESS
  Without bounds or confines; illimitable; vast; unlimited. "The boundless sky." Bryant. "The boundless ocean." Dryden. "Boundless rapacity." "Boundless prospect of gain." Macaulay. Syn. -- Unlimited; unconfined; immeasurable; illimitable; infinite.
• CONFINER
  One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
• DELINEATE
  Delineated; portrayed.
• ENCLOSE
  To inclose. See Inclose.
• DESIGNATE
  Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
• REVERT
  To change back. See Revert, v. i. To revert a series , to treat a series, as y = a + bx + cx2 + etc., where one variable y is expressed in powers of a second variable x, so as to find therefrom the second variable x, expressed in a series arranged
• RESTRAINABLE
  Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
• LIMITARIAN
  Tending to limit.
• LIMITIVE
  Involving a limit; as, a limitive law, one designed to limit existing powers.
• ALLOWEDLY
  By allowance; admittedly. Shenstone.
• LIMITABLE
  Capable of being limited.
• INCARCERATE
  1. To imprison; to confine in a jail or priso 2. To confine; to shut up or inclose; to hem in. Incarcerated hernia , hernia in which the constriction can not be easily reduced.
• COUNTERACT
  To act in opposition to; to hinder, defeat, or frustrate, by contrary agency or influence; as, to counteract the effect of medicines; to counteract good advice.
• FENCER
  One who fences; one who teaches or practices the art of fencing with sword or foil. As blunt as the fencer's foils. Shak.
• HOME-BOUND
  Kept at home.
• OUTBOUND
  Outward bound. Dryden.
• CALLOW
  1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
• HALLOW
  To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed
• PREKNOWLEDGE
  Prior knowledge.
• THRYFALLOW
  To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser.
• PREDEFINE
  To define beforehand.
• LEDGEMENT
  See LEDGMENT
• WEDGY
  Like a wedge; wedge-shaped.
• SALLOWISH
  Somewhat sallow. Dickens.
• UNLIMITED
  1. Not limited; having no bounds; boundless; as, an unlimited expanse of ocean. 2. Undefined; indefinite; not bounded by proper exceptions; as, unlimited terms. "Nothing doth more prevail than unlimited generalities." Hooker. 3. Unconfined; not