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confine

/kuhn-fahyn for 1, 2, 5, 6; kon-fahyn for 3, 4/US // kənˈfaɪn for 1, 2, 5, 6; ˈkɒn faɪn for 3, 4 //

封闭,禁锢,禁闭,拘束

Related Words

incarcerate囚禁,监禁,拘禁,拘押hinder阻碍,妨碍,碍,阻碍因素detain扣留,羁押,拘留,拘押restrict限制,约束,限定,限制性restrain克制,拘束,限制,抑制imprison监禁,囚禁,禁锢,关押jail监狱,监禁,牢狱之灾,牢房constrain约束力,约束,拘束,限制bar吧台,酒吧,杠杠,栏cramp痉挛,痉痉挛,痉缩bound边界,捆绑,捆绑式,边界的delimit划定,界定,划定范围,划线fix修复,固定,修理,修整shorten缩短,简化,缩减,弄短immure不动产,不动摇,不动的,不稳定ice冰,结冰,制冰,冰冰repress压迫,压制,镇压,压抑intern实习生,实习医师,实习医生enslave奴役,役使,奴役他人,奴隶制circumscribe绕行,绕开,绕过,围绕着这个问题

Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    con·fined, con·fin·ing.

    • : to enclose within bounds; limit or restrict: She confined her remarks to errors in the report. Confine your efforts to finishing the book.
    • : to shut or keep in; prevent from leaving a place because of imprisonment, illness, discipline, etc.: For that offense he was confined to quarters for 30 days.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Usually confines. a boundary or bound; limit; border; frontier.
    • : Often confines. region; territory.
    • : Archaic. confinement.
    • : Obsolete. a place of confinement; prison.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbenclose, limit
Forms: confined, confines, confining
Synonyms
constrain约束力,约束,拘束,限制detain扣留,羁押,拘留,拘押hinder阻碍,妨碍,碍,阻碍因素imprison监禁,囚禁,禁锢,关押incarcerate囚禁,监禁,拘禁,拘押jail监狱,监禁,牢狱之灾,牢房restrain克制,拘束,限制,抑制restrict限制,约束,限定,限制性bar吧台,酒吧,杠杠,栏bind束缚,捆绑,绑定,结合bound边界,捆绑,捆绑式,边界的cage笼子,笼子里,牢笼,笼子里的circumscribe绕行,绕开,绕过,围绕着这个问题cool酷,冷却,酷酷的,清凉cramp痉挛,痉痉挛,痉缩delimit划定,界定,划定范围,划线enslave奴役,役使,奴役他人,奴隶制fix修复,固定,修理,修整hog-tie捆绑,捆绑式,拴住,牵制ice冰,结冰,制冰,冰冰immure不动产,不动摇,不动的,不稳定intern实习生,实习医师,实习医生keep保持,保持保持repress压迫,压制,镇压,压抑shorten缩短,简化,缩减,弄短cool down降温,冷静下来,冷却,冷静hem in缩进,缩在一起,缩在里面,缩进了hold back扣留,拖后腿,抵制,扣留住put a lid on盖上盖子,加盖,盖上锅盖,盖上盖头put away收起,收起来,收回,收好put on ice放在冰上,放在冰块上,放到冰上,放在冰上的send up送上,送上去,送上去的,发出shut up闭上嘴巴,住口,收声,闭上嘴

Examples

  • For starters, more people will probably watch the game within the confines of their homes.

  • From his confines in a Melbourne hotel room, the world’s 70th-ranked men’s tennis player is staging a clinic on the sport’s mental game.

  • Due to close confines, too many deaths among inmates and correction officers have occurred nationally, and family and friend visitations are canceled.

  • The trick is still mostly experimental, but it’s an example of thinking outside the artificial confines of a particular AI domain.

  • Experts in psychology and decision-making say hostility toward wearing masks, even within the shared confines of a passenger jet, has been fueled by politicization — but also by skewed incentives and inconsistent messaging.

  • It is naïve to imagine that a militarized police will confine itself to surgical strikes in crime-ridden areas.

  • These questions simply will not confine themselves to quiet rooms.

  • In war, for instance, we certainly mean to confine our aspirations for life to ourselves and our allies.

  • Miss Gould will confine her lectures this week in English to the discussion of plays and play-making.

  • No third mode of origin can be conceived, and we may safely confine ourselves to a review of these two claims.

  • If he confine that slave in his house, and afterwards the slave has been seized in his hand, that man shall be put to death.

  • So, we will name no chemicals or poisons but confine ourselves to effects and processes.

  • We cannot confine the first refrain to one line only, as there is no stop at the end of l. 14.

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