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confine

English

  1. 🔊 prevent from leaving or from being removed
  2. 🔊 deprive of freedom
  3. 🔊 to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement
    “This holds the local until the express passengers change trains”
  4. 🔊 close in
    “darkness enclosed him”
  5. 🔊 place limits on (extent or amount or access)
    “restrict the use of this parking lot”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 encorsetar to confine, to tighten
  2. 🔊 confinar to confine, to limit, to restrict, to keep within bounds

Similar words

restrict trammel limit bound throttle restrain hold constrain detain enclose hold in arena arrest bar bastille be into be strong in block border line bottle up bound boundary boundary condition boundary line