Definition

verb. 1 to enclose within bounds; limit or restrict; 2 to shut or keep in; prevent from leaving a place because of imprisonment;
noun. a bounded scope

Example Sentence

The warden confines the prisoner to a cell. OR Play in the confines of the yard.

Synonyms

limit; restrict; bound; lock

Antonyms

release

Hear It! Say It! Write It!

confines
Hear It! Say It! Write It!

Rhymes

  • bines
  • brines
  • bynes
  • clines
  • dines
  • dynes
  • fein's
  • fines
  • gines
  • glines
  • guynes
  • heines
  • heins
  • heinz
  • heinze
  • hines
  • hynes
  • jines
  • kinds
  • kines
  • klein's
  • line's
  • lines
  • lines'
  • lynes
  • mine's
  • mines
  • mines'
  • neyens
  • nine's
  • nines
  • pines
  • pynes
  • rhines
  • rhynes
  • rines
  • rynes
  • shines
  • shrines
  • sign's
  • signs
  • sines
  • spines
  • stein's
  • steines
  • stines
  • tines
  • tynes
  • vines
  • whines
  • wine's
  • wines
  • wynes
  • zines

  • confines
  • aligns
  • alines
  • assigns
  • burdine's
  • burdines
  • combines
  • confines
  • declines
  • defines
  • designs
  • inclines
  • karlheinz
  • opines
  • refines
  • resigns

  • redefines
  • undermines