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  • verb Present participle of confine.

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  • adjective crowded
  • adjective restricting the scope or freedom of action

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Examples

  • They branded and succeeded in confining the growth of the DK to Tamil Nadu.

    Why are South Indians so smart? Steve Sailer 2002

  • When a person such as Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is already in custody, there is an alternative to killing him -- namely confining him for life.

    Alan Dershowitz: Targeting Mugniyah Was The Right Thing 2008

  • It may be a better place than the auction block, but it is just as confining, which is why I urge that we dismantle both.

    Pedestals and Auction Blocks: On Black and White Women Anxious Black Woman 2007

  • It may be a better place than the auction block, but it is just as confining, which is why I urge that we dismantle both.

    Pedestals and Auction Blocks: On Black and White Women Anxious Black Woman 2007

  • But, with the onset of the Age of Enlightenment in the West, the idea of confining warfare to the battlefield was, if not adhered to, at least given lip service.

    Painting a Target on Ourselves 2006

  • The lock on this door had never been designed with the idea of confining a thief.

    Take A Thief Lackey, Mercedes 2001

  • Premier Stofile had said workers were "first citizens before they were workers" and added that in previous decades the ANC had rejected the notion of confining trade unions to factory issues only.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

  • The one covers the outer surface of the body, the other the inner surface of the ventral wall; hence they are called confining or limiting layers.

    The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876

  • He issued this order under the notion of confining the attention of the clergy to the holy scriptures!

    Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3) Isaac Disraeli 1807

  • This final section describes practices such as confining children for indefinite periods in six-by-nine foot cells, abuses that led to the appointment of a court-ordered monitor for Eufaula.

    2008 November 13 « One-Minute Book Reviews 2008

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