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Word entry · 7 letters

confine

Best crossword clue

"Keep within limits"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /kənˈfaɪn/Part of speech verbSorted cefinnoStarts with CEnds with E1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. place limits on (extent or amount or access)

Word origin

From Middle French confiner, from confins, from Medieval Latin confines, from Latin confinium, from confīnis.

Used in a sentence

  • Where your gloomy bounds / Confine with heaven
  • Betwixt heaven and earth and skies there stands a place / Confining on all three.
  • ‘Why, Sir, to be sure, such parts of Sclavonia as confine with Germany, will borrow German words; and such parts as confine with Tartary will borrow Tartar words.’

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