confine

Academic Word List, sublist 9.

About 2.93 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To restrict (someone or something) to a particular scope or area; to keep in or within certain bounds. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
2. verb To have a common boundary with; to border on.
3. noun A boundary or limit.
4. noun Confinement, imprisonment.

Similar words

circumscribe limit restrict restrain hold enclose detain trammel hold in bound

Often followed by

the ourselves myself themselves himself our their itself his it

Word family

confined confiner confiners confines confining