confine

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  • (verb) enPR: kənfīnʹ, IPA: /kənˈfaɪn/, SAMPA: /k@n"faIn/
  • (noun)
    • (RP): /ˈkɒnfaɪn/, /"kQnfaIn/
    • (US): känʹfīn, /ˈkɑnfaɪn/, /"kAnfaIn/
    Rhymes: -aɪn

[edit] Verb

Infinitive
to confine

Third person singular
confines

Simple past
confined

Past participle
confined

Present participle
confining

to confine (third-person singular simple present confines, present participle confining, simple past and past participle confined)

  1. (transitive) To restrict; to keep within bounds; to shut or keep in a limited space or area

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[edit] Noun

Singular
confine

Plural
confines

confine (plural confines)


  1. (in plural confines) Limits.

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[edit] Italian

[edit] Noun

confine m. (plural confini)

  1. border, frontier
  2. boundary

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[edit] Spanish

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confine (infinitive: confinar)

  1. formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of confinar.
  2. first-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of confinar.
  3. formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of confinar.
  4. third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of confinar.