| 单词 | confine |
| 释义 | confine (once / 129 pages) v Confine is all about setting limits. If you are confined to the house, it means you can't leave it. If you're really sick, you might be confined to your bed. Confine can be used abstractly as well. In writing a term paper, your teacher might tell you to confine your examples to ones that you can support with direct evidence. In the 19th century, pregnancy and childbirth were often referred to as a woman's confinement—a time when she couldn't get up or out. WORD FAMILYconfine: confined, confinement, confines, confining+/confined: confinedly, unconfined/confinement: confinements/unconfined: unconfinedly USAGE EXAMPLESAnd outside the confines of Mar-a-Lago, old grievances flare up. New York Times(Jan 01, 2017) The young Roughol’s disappointment was not confined to the lack of elephants in rural France. The Guardian(Dec 31, 2016) He struggled to maintain regular body temperature, and he was confined to a wheelchair until he regained mobility in his limbs. Washington Times(Dec 31, 2016) 1v place limits on (extent or access) Syn|Hypo|Hyper bound, limit, restrain, restrict, throttle, trammel reduce, tighten narrow or limit tielimit or restrict to gaterestrict (school boys') movement to the dormitory or campus as a means of punishment draw a line, draw the linereasonably object (to) or set a limit (on) mark off, mark outset boundaries to and delimit harness, rein, rulekeep in check baffle, regulatecheck the emission of (sound) cramp, halter, hamper, strangleprevent the progress or free movement of constrain, stiffen, tighten, tighten uprestrict clamp down, crack downrepress or suppress (something regarded as undesirable) inhibitlimit the range or extent of constrain, cumber, encumber, restrainhold back bridleput a bridle on curbkeep to the curb clogimpede the motion of, as with a chain or a burden check, contain, control, curb, hold, hold in, moderate lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits 2v restrict or confine, "I limit you to two visits to the pub a day" Syn|Hypo|Hyper circumscribe, limit hold down restrain keep down, numberplace a limit on the number of caprestrict the number or amount of curb, curtail, cut back, restrictplace restrictions on delimit, delimitate, demarcateset, mark, or draw the boundaries of something contentsatisfy in a limited way rationrestrict the consumption of a relatively scarce commodity, as during war abridgelessen, diminish, or curtail immobilise, immobilizecause to be unable to move decrease, lessen, minify make smaller 3v deprive of freedom; take into confinement Syn|Ant|Hypo detain free, liberate, loose, release, unloose, unloosen grant freedom to; free from confinement keep hold and prevent from leaving straitensqueeze together gaol, immure, imprison, incarcerate, jail, jug, lag, put away, put behind bars, remandlock up or confine, in or as in a jail interndeprive of freedom bind overorder a defendant to be placed in custody pending the outcome of a proceedings against him or her imprisonconfine as if in a prison cage, cage inconfine in a cage pin down, trapplace in a confining or embarrassing position keep incause to stay indoors 4v to close within bounds, limit or hold back from movement Syn|Hypo|Hyper hold, restrain bind, tie down, tie up, truss secure with or as if with ropes fetter, shacklerestrain with fetters enchainrestrain or bind with chains pinion, shacklebind the arms of impound, poundplace or shut up in a pound pound, pound upshut up or confine in any enclosure or within any bounds or limits fold, pen upconfine in a fold, like sheep groundconfine or restrict to the ground chain uptie up with chains faggot, faggot up, fagotbind or tie up in or as if in a faggot faggot, fagotfasten together rods of iron in order to heat or weld them hog-tietie together somebody's limbs cuff, handcuff, manacleconfine or restrain with or as if with manacles or handcuffs disable, disenable, incapacitate make unable to perform a certain action 5v prevent from leaving or from being removed Hypo|Hyper cabin confine to a small space, such as a cabin closetconfine to a small space, as for intensive work coop in, coop upconfine in or as if in a coop lock, lock away, lock in, lock up, put away, shut away, shut upplace in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape lock in, seal inclose with or as if with a tight seal hold back, keep, keep back, restrain keep under control; keep in check 6v close in; "darkness confined him" Syn|Hypo|Hyper enclose, hold in border, bound form the boundary of; be contiguous to embankenclose with banks, as for support or protection rail, rail inenclose with rails box in, box upenclose or confine as if in a box frameenclose in a frame, as of a picture skirtform the edge of vergeborder on; come close to shoreserve as a shore to bear, carry, contain, hold contain or hold; have within |
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