confine

verb · nounB1

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Động từ

verb

V_es/s

confines

V_ing/Gerund

confining

V_ed/pp

confined

1.
(obsolete)To have a common boundary with; to border on.
2.
(transitive)To restrict (someone or something) to a particular scope or area; to keep in or within certain bounds.
1680, John Dryden, Ovid’s Epistles translated by several hands, London: Jacob Tonson, Preface, He is to confine himself to the compass of numbers and the slavery of rhyme.
Đồng nghĩa: pen, hem in

Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

confines

1.
(in plural)(chiefly in the plural) A boundary or limit.
2.
(poetic)Confinement, imprisonment.
She says for you to bring her a slice of cake, A bottle of the best wine, And not to forget the fair young lady That did release you from close confine.

Từ liên quan

Đồng nghĩa

penhem inborder bound limitlimit border, bound, limitincarcerate

Cùng gốc / liên quan

confinableconfinationconfineeconfine oneselfdeconfinereconfine unconfine

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Nguồn gốc từ

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