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CONFINE TO
I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Restrict or confine within limits
Example:
our actions are circumscribed by our biology, personality, and by the social and cultural context into which we are born
Synonyms:
circumscribe; confine to; limit
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "confine to" is one way to...):
decrease; lessen; minify (make smaller)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "confine to"):
hold down (restrain)
keep down; number (place a limit on the number of)
cap (restrict the number or amount of)
curb; curtail; cut back; restrict (place restrictions on)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
