confine

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B1 — Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. verb place limits on (extent or access)
  2. verb restrict or confine,
  3. verb prevent from leaving or from being removed

Etymology

From Middle French confiner, from confins, from Medieval Latin confines, from Latin confinium, from confīnis.

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Synonyms

restrict, restrain, trammel, limit, bound, throttle

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