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WordBand 6.5–8Academic (NAWL)

confine

/ˈkɒnfaɪn/

An illustration for confine

verb

to keep something or someone within a limited area so it cannot escape

  • “I feel confined, only free to expand myself within boundaries.”Tatoeba
  • “We should confine the discussion to the question at issue.”Tatoeba

Sentences from Tatoeba show real usage. A word can have several meanings, so a sentence may use another one.

Source: New Academic Word List (Browne, Culligan & Phillips) (CC BY-SA 4.0); Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0); Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR)

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