Confined

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Restricted to the service of one employer, as a laborer hired by him for the year; as, “a numerous body of confined labourers,”
  • Restrained within limits; imprisoned; secluded; close; narrow; mean: as, a confined mind.
  • In pathology, constipated: as, the bowels may be confined.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. having movement restricted to within a certain area; -- usually a building. Opposite of unconfined.
  • adjective. deprived of liberty; especially placed under arrest or restraint.
  • adjective. having movement restricted to within an enclosed outdoor area; -- of animals.
  • adjective. not invading healthy tissue.
  • adjective. held prisoner.
  • adjective. having movement or progress restricted to a certain area.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. Simple past tense and past participle of confine.
  • adjective. not free to move
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. being in captivity
  • adjective. not free to move about
  • adjective. not invading healthy tissue
  • Word Usage
    "Going into what we call confined area landing sites -- CALS -- which is precisely what I was talking about, that last meter of dry land and that rooftop."
    Equivalent
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    affined  aligned  assigned  behind  bind  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    verb-stem
    confine