1. A bounded scope
   "he stayed within the confines of the city"

1. A boundary or border
   "The confines of the city limits"

1. Place limits on (extent, amount or access)
   "Use is confined to medical professionals"; "She felt confined by social expectations";
   - restrict, trammel, limit, bound, throttle
    
2. To close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement
   "They confined the animals to their pens";
   - restrain, hold, constrain
    
3. Prevent from leaving or from being removed
   "The zookeepers confined the dangerous animals to their enclosures"
    
4. Deprive of freedom; take into confinement
   "The suspect was confined to a holding cell";
   - detain
    
5. Close in
   "darkness confined him";
   - enclose, hold in

Type of: act, ambit, bear, carry, compass, contain, disable, disenable [archaic], hold, hold back, incapacitate, keep, keep back, move, orbit, range, reach, restrain, scope

Antonym: free

Encyclopedia: Confines