Confined

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  • v. Simple past tense and past participle of confine.
  • adj. not free to move
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. having movement restricted to within a certain area; -- usually a building. Opposite of unconfined.
  • adj. deprived of liberty; especially placed under arrest or restraint.
  • adj. having movement restricted to within an enclosed outdoor area; -- of animals.
  • adj. not invading healthy tissue.
  • adj. held prisoner.
  • adj. having movement or progress restricted to a certain area.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Restrained within limits; imprisoned; secluded; close; narrow; mean: as, a confined mind.
  • In pathology, constipated: as, the bowels may be confined.
  • Restricted to the service of one employer, as a laborer hired by him for the year; as, “a numerous body of confined labourers,”
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. being in captivity
  • adj. not free to move about
  • adj. not invading healthy tissue
  • Equivalent
    unfree    shut-in    snow-bound    weather-bound    homebound    shut up    housebound    pent    stormbound    confining   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    fenced in    penned    captive    imprisoned    jailed    bedrid    bedridden   
    Verb Stem
    confine   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    affined    aligned    assigned    behind    bind    blind    combined    consigned    declined    defined