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Adjective confining has 2 senses
- confining, constraining, constrictive, limiting, restricting - restricting the scope or freedom of action
Antonym: unrestrictive (indirect, via restrictive)
- close, confining - crowded; "close quarters"
Antonym: unconfined (indirect, via confined)
Verb confine has 6 senses
- limit, circumscribe, confine - restrict or confine, "I limit you to two visits to the pub a day"
--1 is one way to decrease, lessen, minify
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- restrict, restrain, trammel, limit, bound, confine, throttle - place limits on (extent or access); "restrict the use of this parking lot"; "limit the time you can spend with your friends"
--2 is one way to control, hold in, hold, contain, check, curb, moderate
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP
- confine - prevent from leaving or from being removed
--3 is one way to restrain, suppress, keep, keep back, hold back
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP
- enclose, hold in, confine - close in or confine
--4 is one way to hold, bear, carry, contain
Sample sentence:
Something ----s something
- confine, detain - deprive of freedom; take into confinement
Antonyms: free, liberate, release, unloose, unloosen, loose
Sample sentence:
They want to confine the prisoners
- restrain, confine, hold - to close within bounds, limit or hold back from movement; "This holds the local until the express passengers change trains"; "About a dozen animals were held inside the stockade"; "The illegal immigrants were held at a detention center"; "The terrorists held the journalists for ransom"
--6 is one way to disable, disenable, incapacitate
Sample sentence:
They want to confine the prisoners
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