1. Restricting the scope or freedom of action
   "The confining rules of the competition limited creative expression";
   - constraining, constrictive, limiting
    
2. In close proximity; crowded
   "confining quarters";
   - close

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

See also: confined, restrictive

Type of: act, bear, carry, contain, disable, disenable [archaic], hold, hold back, incapacitate, keep, keep back, move, restrain

Antonym: free

Encyclopedia: Confine