0 present participle of confine --
1 to limit an activity, person, or problem in some way: --
We know that the illness is not confined to any one group in society.
The hostages had been confined for so long that they couldn't cope with the outside world.
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).
Let's confine our discussion to the matter in question, please!
It provides us with an extremely thin notion of legal positivism and then guarantees its truth by confining it to a very narrow question.
To the degree that too much is squeezed into a single and confining mould, the resulting conclusions are weakened.
We did this by confining the optimal stimulus to a central region the size of the peak summation diameter.
Females do not participate in public affairs, confining their activities entirely to the home.
However, their comments are also balanced with a sense of needing to escape a "confining" family environment.
The problem with this scheme is that absorption processes overcome the confining forces before fusion can occur.
The story challenges the confining logic that equates women with passivity and therefore places women's pacifism in opposition to men's militarism.
The new political landscape has created new confining conditions, which may persuade the opposition to re-engage in the process of democratic consolidation.
