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confine /kən'fain/

• ngoại động từ
  • giam giữ, giam hãm, giam cầm, nhốt giữ lại
    • to be confined to one's room: bị giam hãm trong buồng (không được ra vì ốm...)
  • hạn chế
    • to confine oneself to the subject: tự hạn chế trong phạm vi vấn đề

• nội động từ
  • (từ hiếm,nghĩa hiếm) (+ on, to, with) tiếp giáp với, giáp giới với
  • to be confined
    • ở cữ, đẻ
  • to be confined to one's bed
    • bị liệt giường

• danh từ
  • ((thường) số nhiều) biên giới
  • (nghĩa bóng) ranh giới (giữa hai loại ý kiến...)

confines|confined|confining'kɒnfaɪn
verb
+restrict or confine, "I limit you to two visits to the pub a day"
+place limits on (extent or access)
+prevent from leaving or from being removed
+close in or confine
+deprive of freedom; take into confinement
+to close within bounds, limit or hold back from movement

+ verb [VN]
1 ~ sb/sth to sth [often passive] to keep sb/sth inside the limits of a particular activity, subject, area, etc.
Synonym: RESTRICT
The work will not be confined to the Glasgow area. + I will confine myself to looking at the period from 1900 to 1916.
2 ~ sb/sth (in sth) [usually passive] to keep a person or an animal in a small or closed space: Keep the dog confined in a suitable travelling cage. + Here the river is confined in a narrow channel. + The soldiers concerned were confined to barracks (= had to stay in the barracks, as a punishment)
3 be confined to bed, a wheelchair, etc. to have to stay in bed, in a WHEELCHAIR, etc: She was confined to bed with the flu. + He was confined to a wheelchair after the accident.