Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to confine
Participle: confined
Gerund: confining
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | confine |
| you | confine |
| he;she;it | confines |
| we | confine |
| you | confine |
| they | confine |
Perfect
| I | have confined |
| you | have confined |
| he;she;it | has confined |
| we | have confined |
| you | have confined |
| they | have confined |
Past
| I | confined |
| you | confined |
| he;she;it | confined |
| we | confined |
| you | confined |
| they | confined |
Pluperfect
| I | had confined |
| you | had confined |
| he;she;it | had confined |
| we | had confined |
| you | had confined |
| they | had confined |
Future
| I | will confine |
| you | will confine |
| he;she;it | will confine |
| we | will confine |
| you | will confine |
| they | will confine |
Future Perfect
| I | will have confined |
| you | will have confined |
| he;she;it | will have confined |
| we | will have confined |
| you | will have confined |
| they | will have confined |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | confine |
| you | confine |
| he;she;it | confine |
| we | confine |
| you | confine |
| they | confine |
Perfect
| I | have confined |
| you | have confined |
| he;she;it | have confined |
| we | have confined |
| you | have confined |
| they | have confined |
Imperfect
| I | confined |
| you | confined |
| he;she;it | confined |
| we | confined |
| you | confined |
| they | confined |
Pluperfect
| I | had confined |
| you | had confined |
| he;she;it | had confined |
| we | had confined |
| you | had confined |
| they | had confined |
Conditional
Present
| I | would confine |
| you | would confine |
| he;she;it | would confine |
| we | would confine |
| you | would confine |
| they | would confine |
Perfect
| I | would have confined |
| you | would have confined |
| he;she;it | would have confined |
| we | would have confined |
| you | would have confined |
| they | would have confined |
Imperative
| you | confine |
| we | Let's confine |
| you | confine |
Verbs conjugated like 'confine'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'confine'
confide,
bonfire,
co-fire,
codefine,
coffin,
cofire,
combine,
concise,
concite,
condite,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to put in prison
- gaol, imprison, jail, send down
- restrict
- restrain, limit, hinder, hamper, curb, bind
- enclose
- hold, immure, cage, imprison, corral, incarcerate, circle
Antonyms
- to give freedom to; to rid of that which confines, limits, embarrasses, or oppresses
- capture, imprison, leash, restrain, liberate
- restrict
- release, free, disencumber, enlarge
- enclose
- open, expose, disclose, develop
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle French confiner, from confins, from Medieval Latin confines, from Latin confinium, from confīnis.
Sample Sentences
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[...] to see the humbler classes of society careful of their dress and appearance, and even, if they please, decorated with such little trinkets as come within the compass of their means. Supposing it confined within reasonable limits, I would always encourage this kind of pride, as a worthy element of self-respect, in any person I employed; and should no more be deterred from doing so, because some [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] divine[2 ] tells us has _“no evils but such as are inseparable from any other relations in social and domestic life_. ” But Tom, as we see, being a poor, ignorant fellow, whose reading had been confined entirely to the New Testament, could not comfort and solace himself with views like these. His very soul bled within him for what seemed to him the _wrongs_ of the poor suffering thing that lay like [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] and circumstances of more than one such fatality during our stay sufficiently testified. Apart from this source of self-congratulation, it was an unspeakable relief to have any place, no matter how confined, where one could be alone: and as the row of little chambers of which this was one, had each a second glass-door besides that in the ladies ’ cabin, which opened on a narrow gallery outside the [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] least, _consistently_. He says that there can be no high civilization without enslavement of the masses, either nominal or real. There must, he says, be a lower class, given up to physical toil and confined to an animal nature; and a higher one thereby acquires leisure and wealth for a more expanded intelligence and improvement, and becomes the directing soul of the lower. So he reasons, because, as I [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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The child was announced and considered in the family as Miss Ophelia's girl; and, as she was looked upon with no gracious eye in the kitchen, Miss Ophelia resolved to confine her sphere of operation and instruction chiefly to her own chamber. With a self-sacrifice which some of our readers will appreciate, she resolved, instead of comfortably making her own bed, sweeping [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] was at last willing to call in medical advice,—a thing from which he had always shrunk, because it was the admission of an unwelcome truth. ~~~ But, for a day or two, Eva was so unwell as to be confined to the house; and the doctor was called.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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The desire to do something was not confined to Tom. Every servant in the establishment showed the same feeling, and in their way did what they could.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] and smiled, and the two were soon busy in a game of backgammon. Meanwhile, another conversation was going on in the lower part of the boat, between Emmeline and the mulatto woman with whom she was confined. As was natural, they were exchanging with each other some particulars of their history.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] discouragement. The colored man, by the law of Ohio, cannot be a voter, and, till within a few years, was even denied the right of testimony in legal suits with the white. Nor are these instances confined to the State of Ohio. In all states of the Union we see men, but yesterday burst from the shackles of slavery, who, by a self-educating force, which cannot be too much admired, have risen to highly [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)