0 to limit an activity, person, or problem in some way:
Let's confine our discussion to the matter in question, please!
By closing the infected farms we're hoping to confine the disease to the north of the region (= stop it from spreading to other areas).
The hostages had been confined for so long that they couldn't cope with the outside world.
We know that the illness is not confined to any one group in society.
Men have always played an active part in leading worship while women have been confined to more passive roles.
The campaign aims to dispel the prejudice that AIDS is confined to the homosexual community.
We confined our research to families with only one autistic child.
It was terrible for our research to be confined by lack of money.
The problem is not confined to secondary schools.
Theory is not confined to any particular domain - there is as much ecological theory as there is cultural and social theory.
As settlement business cost parishes a considerable amount, he added, parishes may well have confined the examination to the time of actual chargeability.
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