transitive verb. To keep within bounds; restrict: synonym: limit.

transitive verb. To shut or keep in, especially to imprison.

transitive verb. To restrict in movement.

Bordering; having a common boundary; adjacent; contiguous.

To have a common boundary; border; abut; be in contact: followed by on or with.

To restrict within bounds; limit; inclose; bound; hence, imprison; immure; shut up.

Synonyms To bound, circumscribe, restrict, incarcerate.

noun. A boundary-line or limit; bound; border; precinct.

noun. That part of a territory which is at or near the border; the frontier: used generally in the plural, and often figuratively: as, the confines of France or of Scotland.

noun. Territory; region; district.

noun. An inhabitant of a contiguous district; a neighbor.

noun. A place of confinement; a prison.

noun. In geom. of n-dimensions, that which corresponds to a closed volume in three dimensions.

intransitive verb. To have a common boundary; to border; to lie contiguous; to touch; -- followed by on or with.

noun. Common boundary; border; limit; -- used chiefly in the plural.

noun. Apartment; place of restraint; prison.

transitive verb. To restrain within limits; to restrict; to limit; to bound; to shut up; to inclose; to keep close.

transitive verb. to be in childbed.

verb. To restrict; to keep within bounds; to shut or keep in a limited space or area

noun. Limit.

verb. close in

verb. deprive of freedom; take into confinement

verb. restrict or confine,

verb. to close within bounds, limit or hold back from movement

verb. place limits on (extent or access)

verb. prevent from leaving or from being removed

"That a man should lay down his life for his friend seems strange to vulgar affections and such as confine themselves within that worldly principle, “Charity begins at home.”"