- confined - not free to move about
Antonyms: unconfined, free-range, unenclosed
- confined, fenced in, penned - enclosed by a confining fence
Antonym: unenclosed (indirect, via enclosed)
- confined - not invading healthy tissue
Antonyms: invasive, aggressive, fast-growing
- confined - deprived of liberty; especially placed under arrest or restraint
Antonym: unrestrained (indirect, via restrained)
- captive, confined, imprisoned, jailed - in captivity
Antonym: free (indirect, via unfree)
- limit, circumscribe, confine - restrict or confine, "I limit you to two visits to the pub a day"
--1 is one way to decrease, lessen, minify
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- restrict, restrain, trammel, limit, bound, confine, throttle - place limits on (extent or access); "restrict the use of this parking lot"; "limit the time you can spend with your friends"
--2 is one way to control, hold in, hold, contain, check, curb, moderate
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP
- confine - prevent from leaving or from being removed
--3 is one way to restrain, suppress, keep, keep back, hold back
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP
- enclose, hold in, confine - close in or confine
--4 is one way to hold, bear, carry, contain
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun confinement3
Something ----s something
- confine, detain - deprive of freedom; take into confinement
Antonyms: free, liberate, release, unloose, unloosen, loose
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun confinement2
They want to confine the prisoners
- restrain, confine, hold - to close within bounds, limit or hold back from movement; "This holds the local until the express passengers change trains"; "About a dozen animals were held inside the stockade"; "The illegal immigrants were held at a detention center"; "The terrorists held the journalists for ransom"
--6 is one way to disable, disenable, incapacitate
Sample sentence:
They want to confine the prisoners
- enclose, hold in, confine - close in or confine