confine

1. Place limits on (extent or amount or access) (synset 200234091)
   "restrict the use of this parking lot"; "limit the time you can spend with your friends"
   subtypes:

   • reduce, tighten - narrow or limit
   • tie - limit or restrict to
   • gate - restrict (school boys') movement to the dormitory or campus as a means of punishment
   • draw a line, draw the line - reasonably object (to) or set a limit (on)
   • mark off, mark out - set boundaries to and delimit
   • cramp, halter, hamper, strangle - prevent the progress or free movement of
   • constrain, stiffen, tighten, tighten up - severely restrict in scope or extent
   • clamp down, crack down - repress or suppress (something regarded as undesirable)
   • delimit, delimitate, demarcate - set, mark, or draw the boundaries of something
   • cumber, encumber, restrain - restrict (someone or something) so as to make free movement difficult
   • scant, skimp - limit in quality or quantity
   same as: bound, limit, restrict, throttle, trammel
2. Prevent from leaving or from being removed (synset 201349980)
   is a type of: hold back, keep, keep back, restrain - prevent the action or expression of
   subtypes:

   • cabin - confine to a small space, such as a cabin
   • closet - confine to a small space, as for intensive work
   • coop in, coop up - confine in or as if in a coop
   • lock, lock away, lock in, lock up, put away, shut away, shut up - place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape
   • lock in, seal in - close with or as if with a tight seal
3. Close in (synset 202716988)
   "darkness enclosed him"
   is a type of: bear, carry, contain, hold - contain or hold; have within
   subtypes:

   • border, bound - form the boundary of; be contiguous to
   • embank - enclose with banks, as for support or protection
   • rail, rail in - enclose with rails
   • box in, box up - enclose or confine as if in a box
   • frame - enclose in a frame, as of a picture
   same as: enclose, hold in
4. Deprive of freedom;
   Take into confinement (synset 202500687)
   subtypes:

   • keep - hold and prevent from leaving
   • straiten - squeeze together
   • gaol, immure, imprison, incarcerate, jail, jug, lag, put away, put behind bars, remand - lock up or confine, in or as in a jail
   • intern - deprive of freedom
   • bind over - order a defendant to be placed in custody pending the outcome of a proceedings against him or her
   • imprison - confine as if in a prison
   • cage, cage in - confine in a cage
   • pin down, trap - place in a confining or embarrassing position
   • keep in - cause to stay indoors
   same as: detain
5. To close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement (synset 201304044)
   "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"
   is a type of: disable, disenable, incapacitate - make unable to perform a certain action
   subtypes:

   • bind, tie down, tie up, truss - secure with or as if with ropes
   • fetter, shackle - restrain with fetters
   • enchain - restrain or bind with chains
   • pinion, shackle - bind the arms of
   • impound, pound - place or shut up in a pound
   • pound, pound up - shut up or confine in any enclosure or within any bounds or limits
   • fold, pen up - confine in a fold, like sheep
   • ground - confine or restrict to the ground
   same as: constrain, hold, restrain

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