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confining

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

拘束的,拘束,拘束性的,拘拘束束

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

nounrestricting
Synonyms
bounding界定,界定的,界限性,边界的detaining拘留,拘押,羁押,拘留的enclosing围着的,围住的,围墙,围住imprisoning监禁,囚禁,监禁的,禁锢restraining限制性,限制,抑制,拘束

Examples

  • A company called Jurassic Quest created a prehistoric zoo of more than 70 animatronic beasts to explore from the confines of your car.

  • For Cowles and the game’s other actors, that meant recording lines of dialogue — and their many screams — from the confines of their homes.

  • While team success within friendly confines has nosedived, if the trend holds, it won’t be much of a departure for the Big Ten, which opens play Friday.

  • If it was controlled and kept within the confines of marriage, it could build strong families and, ultimately, a strong nation.

  • Whether you’re working from home, helping educate kids from the confines of your own walls, or like so many of us, doing both, a new constant that probably isn’t going away is the video call.

  • The decision to leave the confining comforts of home this past November was “awful,” says Grace.

  • It is at once confining and infinitely sinuous, so at Biennale-time it abounds with situations I call Bonjour, Monsieur Courbet!

  • To these and the general forms of old English pipes, I purpose confining myself in the present article.

  • The veil had slipped and might easily have been mistaken for a ribbon confining the queue at the base of the head.

  • When a way has been acquired by such use, the law is strict in confining the gainer in the use of it.

  • Instead of confining their action to actual applicants for help, they had to search out cases of nuisance or dangerous disease.

  • A very dense fog enveloped everything, confining the view of surrounding objects to a radius of about fifty yards.

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