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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Confine \Con*fine"\ (k[o^]n*f[imac]n"), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Confined}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Confining}.] [F. confiner to border upon, LL. confinare to set bounds to; con- + finis boundary, end. See {Final}, {Finish}.] To restrain within limits; to restrict; to limit; to bound; to shut up; to inclose; to keep close.
Now let not nature's hand Keep the wild flood confined! let order die! --Shak.
He is to confine himself to the compass of numbers and the slavery of rhyme. --Dryden.
{To be confined}, to be in childbed.
Syn: To bound; limit; restrain; imprison; immure; inclose; circumscribe; restrict.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
confined \confined\ adjective
1. having movement restricted to within a certain area; -- usually a building. Opposite of {unconfined}.
Note: [Narrower terms: {claustrophobic}; {close, confining}; {homebound, housebound, shut-in}; {in childbed(prenominal)}; {pent, shut up(predicate)}; {snowbound}; {weather-bound}; {stormbound, storm-bound}] [WordNet 1.5]
2. deprived of liberty; especially placed under arrest or restraint. [WordNet 1.5]
3. having movement restricted to within an enclosed outdoor area; -- of animals.
Syn: fenced in, penned. [WordNet 1.5]
4. (Med.) not invading healthy tissue. [WordNet 1.5]
5. held prisoner.
Syn: captive, imprisoned, jailed. [WordNet 1.5]
6. having movement or progress restricted to a certain area; as, an outbreak of the plague confined to one quarter of the city; wildfires confined to within the canyon. [PJC]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
confined
adjective
1: not free to move about [ant: {unconfined}]
2: enclosed by a confining fence [syn: {fenced in}, {penned}]
3: not invading healthy tissue [ant: {invasive}]
4: deprived of liberty; especially placed under arrest or restraint
5: in captivity [syn: {captive}, {imprisoned}, {jailed}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
113 Moby Thesaurus words for "confined": angustifoliate, angustirostrate, angustisellate, angustiseptal, authoritative, barred, bedfast, bedridden, beleaguered, beset, besieged, blockaded, bound, bounded, boxed in, cabined, caged, circumscribed, cloistered, close, close-fitting, closed-in, conditioned, constricted, cooped, copyrighted, cordoned, cordoned off, corralled, cramp, cramped, cribbed, crowded, detained, disciplined, down, enclosed, expert, feature, featured, fenced, finite, geographically limited, hedged, hedged about, hedged in, hemmed, hemmed in, hospitalized, icebound, immured, impounded, imprisoned, in childbed, in confinement, in hospital, incapacious, incarcerated, incommodious, insular, invalided, isthmian, isthmic, jailed, kept in, knowledgeable, laid up, landlocked, leaguered, limited, local, localized, meager, mewed, moderated, narrow, near, of a place, paled, parochial, patented, penned, pent, pent-up, prescribed, proscribed, prostrate, provincial, qualified, quarantined, railed, restrained, restricted, scant, scanty, shut-in, sick abed, slender, snowbound, specialist, specialistic, specialized, stinted, strait, straitened, technical, tight, topical, under restraint, vernacular, walled, walled-in, windbound
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