confine
Verbs
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(v) place limits on (extent or access)
- restrict the use of this parking lot
- limit the time you can spend with your friends
- (v) restrict or confine, "I limit you to two visits to the pub a day" circumscribe, limit,
- (v) prevent from leaving or from being removed
- (v) close in; darkness enclosed him" hold in, enclose,
- (v) deprive of freedom; take into confinement detain,
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(v) 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