confines
Academic Word List, sublist 9.
About 2.82 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun The borders or limits of an area.
- noun The elements that restrain someone.
- noun The scope or range of a subject.
- verb third-person singular simple present indicative of confine
Similar words
circumscribe limit restrict restrain hold enclose detain trammel hold in bound
Often followed by
of the itself himself his its and it them
Word family
confine confined confining
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