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WordBand 6.5–8Academic (NAWL)
confine
/ˈkɒnfaɪn/
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
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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)