• (verb) enPR: kənfīnʹ, IPA: /kənˈfaɪn/
• (noun)
  • (RP) IPA: /ˈkɒnfaɪn/
  • (America) enPR: känʹfīn, IPA: /ˈkɑnfaɪn/

confine (confines, present participle confining; past and past participle confined)

1. (transitive) To restrict; to keep within bounds; to shut or keep in a limited space or area.
   • c. 1596–1599, William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act I, scene i]:

     Now let not nature's hand / Keep the wild flood confined! let order die!

   • He is to confine himself to the compass of numbers and the slavery of rhyme.

2. To have a common boundary; to border; to lie contiguous; to touch; followed by on or with.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book 2”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:

     Where your gloomy bounds / Confine with heaven

   • Betwixt heaven and earth and skies there stands a place / Confining on all three.

• French: confiner
• German: beschränken
• Portuguese: confinar
• Russian: ограни́чивать
• Spanish: confinar, encorsetar

confine (plural confines)

1. (mostly, in the plural) A boundary or limit.

• (limit) border, bound, limit

• French: limite
• German: Begrenzung
• Portuguese: confim
• Russian: грани́ца
• Spanish: confín, raya