confine to

1. 1.

   restrict or confine within limits

   “I limit you to two visits to the pub a day”

   “please confine your questions to the topic”

   “our actions are circumscribed by our biology, personality, and by the social and cultural context into which we are born”

   Synonymslimitcircumscribe

   Broaderdecrease

   Narrowerhold downnumbercaprestrict

Questions about confine to

What does confine to mean?

confine to means "restrict or confine within limits".

What is another word for confine to?

Close synonyms include limit, circumscribe. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is confine to a common word?

confine to is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.