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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not free to move about
Classified under:
Similar:
claustrophobic (uncomfortably closed or hemmed in)
homebound; housebound; shut-in (confined usually by illness)
pent; shut up (closely confined)
snowbound (confined or shut in by heavy snow)
stormbound (delayed or confined or cut off by a storm)
weather-bound (delayed or shut in by bad weather)
Also:
unfree (hampered and not free; not able to act at will)
restricted (subject to restriction or subjected to restriction)
Antonym:
unconfined (not confined)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Being in captivity
Synonyms:
captive; confined; imprisoned; jailed
Classified under:
Similar:
unfree (hampered and not free; not able to act at will)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Not invading healthy tissue
Classified under:
Adjectives
Antonym:
invasive (marked by a tendency to spread especially into healthy tissue)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb confine
Context examples:
A neoplastic endometrial proliferation that is confined to the endometrium and does not have metastatic potential.
(Benign Endometrial Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)
A nanoscale cavity or channel confined within a membrane or solid matter.
(Nanopore, NCI Thesaurus)
And here, confined, hidden from view all except his ears, no longer growling, he continued to nudge and snuggle.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Mr. Dick's renown was not long confined to us.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
An invasive adenocarcinoma confined to the mucosa or mucosa and submucosa of the gastric wall.
(Early Gastric Cancer, NCI Thesaurus)
The cutaneous lesions consist of histiocytes, which are usually confined to the dermis.
(Multicentric Reticulohistiocytosis, NCI Thesaurus)
“The country,” said Darcy, “can in general supply but a few subjects for such a study. In a country neighbourhood you move in a very confined and unvarying society.”
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
An irrational fear of being in a confined space.
(Claustrophobia, NCI Thesaurus)
To ensure consistent lighting, they confined imaging to between noon and 2 p.m. local Mars time each day.
(Curiosity Mars Rover Snaps Its Highest-Resolution Panorama Yet, NASA)
For now, DFT2 appears to be confined to a peninsula in Tasmania’s south-east.
(Human anti-cancer drugs could help treat transmissible cancers in Tasmanian devils, University of Cambridge)
