confine · verb
Bedeutungen und Beispiele
Jemanden oder etwas innerhalb bestimmter Grenzen halten.
Please confine your comments to the proposal being discussed so that everyone has time to contribute.
The researchers confined their study to adults who had lived in the area for at least five years.
The damage was confined to one room because the heavy door prevented the fire from spreading.
We should not confine the search to familiar sources when other evidence may change our understanding.
Formen
- confine base form
- confines third-person singular present
- confined past tense; past participle
- confining present participle