confine
81mew someone up — confine in a restricting place or situation. → mew …
82pen someone up/in — confine someone in a restricted space. → pen …
83shut someone/thing in/out — confine or exclude by closing something such as a door. → shut …
84wall someone in/up — confine someone in a restricted or sealed place. → wall …
85tie up — Confine, restrain, hinder from motion …
86shut someone/something in — CONFINE, enclose, impound, shut up, pen (in/up), fence in, immure, lock up/in, cage, imprison, intern, incarcerate; N. Amer. corral. → shut * * * keep someone or something inside a place by closing something such as a door her parents shut her in …
87keep someone in — confine someone indoors or in a particular place he should be kept in overnight for a second operation …
88confiner — [ kɔ̃fine ] v. tr. <conjug. : 1> • 1464; de confins 1 ♦ Tr. ind. (1466) Toucher aux confins, aux limites d un pays. La Belgique confine à, avec la France. Être tout proche, voisin de. Les prairies qui confinent à la rivière. Fig. « La… …
89confiner — (kon fi né) 1° V. n. Toucher aux confins, aux limites. • Damas qui confinait aux deux royaumes, BOSSUET Hist. I, 8. • Leurs terres peuvent confiner à la vigne de Naboth, J. J. ROUSS. Ém. V. Il se conjugue avec l auxiliaire avoir.… …
90limit — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Boundary Nouns limit, boundary, bounds, confines; curbstone, term, edge; compass; bourne, verge, pale; termination, terminus, end, terminal, extremity; stint; frontier, precinct, border, marches,… …