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confined

/kuhn-fahynd/US // kənˈfaɪnd //UK // (kənˈfaɪnd) //

封闭的,受限制的,被限制的,拘束的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : limited or restricted.
    • : unable to leave a place because of illness, imprisonment, etc.
    • : being in childbirth; being in parturition.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.limited, enclosed
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Examples

  • A yearlong legislative effort to end decades of controversial practices that often left confined children crying for their parents and tearing at the walls ended without a vote in the Illinois House on Wednesday as the legislative session expired.

  • Exploitation of trafficking victims may be most acute in conflict and adjoining regions, but it is not confined to these areas.

  • The series also reversed a long trend that saw the character paralyzed by the Joker and confined to a wheelchair for a decade.

  • Originally it was a low-level insurgency mainly confined to the Sinai Peninsula .

  • You can clink your wine glass and deliver an impassioned speech about conquering the demons that kept you confined in the closet.

  • Former Missouri State Senator Chuck Graham is paraplegic and confined to a wheelchair.

  • He passed the latter part of his life in poverty, and towards the close of it, was confined in a madhouse.

  • In these rooms male and female alike were confined, at one time to the number of fifteen; each being allowed 3d.

  • His works were numerous, and some of them political, for which he was confined in the bastile nine years.

  • It is painful to add, that the latter years of his life were passed in prison, where he was confined for debt.

  • It was principally confined to the lower classes, and was common among soldiers and sailors.