0 present participle of confine
1 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.
Nonlinear confining and deconfining forces associated with interaction of laser radiation with plasma.
Nonlinear confining and deconfining forces associated with the interaction of laser radiation with plasma.
In the case of methods defined in the confining package, this ensues from the other confinement rules.
