To thrust or crush (into a confined space); to shut up, confine, bind; figurative to confine, restrict (quot. 1374); in quot. 1400, to bind tightly…

transitive. To check, hold back, or prevent (a person or thing) from some course of action. Also with †of, †for to do something.

figurative.

transitive. To set limits to, to restrain. Obsolete.

transitive. To confine within limits, to set bounds to (rarely in concrete sense); to bound, restrict. Const. to. †Also: to prohibit (a person) from…

transitive. To confine, limit, or constrain (a person); †to trap or pin down (a person) in an argument (obsolete). Also: to restrict (an idea, a…

transitive. In extended use. To confine, restrain, or restrict in some way. Frequently with up. Obsolete.

transitive. To limit, restrict, restrain, circumscribe; to confine within bounds. rare.

To set bounds to, to limit, restrict, confine.

To confine within narrow limits; figurative to restrict.

To mark out or lay down the limits of; to enclose within limits, limit, bound, confine (usually figurative); esp. to confine within narrow limits…

transitive. To limit (a person or thing); to confine to or within certain limits.

To shut up or comprehend within definite limits; to restrict, confine. (Also with up.) Obsolete.

transitive. To set limits to (something); to limit.

transitive. To restrict (a person, his share or right) with respect to quantity or number; to limit in amount of allowance or indulgence.

transitive. To place in or as in a chamber; to shut up, confine, enclose (literal and figurative). Now archaic and rare.

figurative. To restrict, limit, confine.

To fasten with cramp-irons or cramps; figurative to cramp, confine.

To restrict, limit, confine. (Also reflexive.) Obsolete.

transitive. (After Latin finire.) To assign a limit or boundary to; to limit. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To shut up or confine in an enclosure; to confine within any bounds or limits, material or otherwise; occasionally with up. Also figur…

figurative. To keep within bounds, limit, restrict.

transitive. To limit, restrict, confine to (or in); to circumscribe. Obsolete.

transitive. To bind or constrain as if by a noose; to ensnare. Now rare.

figurative. To keep within bounds, confine, limit.

figurative. To restrain within bounds, to limit.

figurative. To confine, restrict, limit.

transitive. figurative. Paired with bound: to establish the limits of (something); to delimit, to demarcate. rare after 17th cent.

transitive. figurative. To restrict or limit (a person or thing) to something. Also: to characterize, define, or specify (something) precisely.

transitive. To restrict, reduce, or interfere with; to have a limiting or inhibiting effect on. Cf. to put a crimp in at crimp, n.3 4 and cramp, v. 5.

transitive. To set a limit or bounds to; to bound; to check.

transitive. To confine (a person or thing) in a small space or within narrow limits, as if in a box, esp. uncomfortably; to block or restrict the…