confine: Meaning and Definition of

con•fine

1. to enclose within bounds; limit or restrict: She confined her remarks to errors in the report. Confine your efforts to finishing the book.
2. to shut or keep in; prevent from leaving a place because of imprisonment, illness, discipline, etc.: For that offense he was confined to quarters for 30 days.

1. Usually,a boundary or bound; limit; border; frontier.
2. Often,region; territory.
3. confinement.
4. a place of confinement; prison.