Confines Synonyms and Antonyms

Deprive of freedom; take into confinement
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. locks
  2. jails
  3. interns
  4. incarcerates
  5. detains
  6. imprisons
  7. immures
Antonyms:
  1. frees
To close within bounds, limit or hold back from movement
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. imprisons
  2. holds
  3. closets
  4. restrains
Antonyms:
  1. frees
  2. releases
  3. liberates
Territory
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. region
  2. country
  3. terrain
Place limits on (extent or access)
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. restricts
  2. limits
  3. restrains
  4. circumscribes
  5. ties
  6. throttles
  7. tethers
  8. shortens
  9. shackles
  10. secures
  11. represses
  12. regulates
  13. pinions
  14. pens
  15. locks
  16. keeps
  17. jails
  18. interns
  19. incarcerates
  20. bounds
  21. imprisons
  22. impounds
  23. impales
  24. immures
  25. hurdles
  26. trammels
  27. holds
  28. grounds
  29. encompasses
  30. encloses
  31. detains
  32. demarcates
  33. cramps
  34. coops
  35. constrains
  36. cages
  37. borders
  38. binds
To keep shut up
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. walls
  2. encloses
  3. locks
  4. immures
  5. bars
Scope
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. proportions
  2. range
  3. dimension
  4. limits
  5. end
Antonyms:
  1. open
Close in; darkness enclosed him""
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. encloses

Words Related to Confines

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Confines Sentence Examples

  • He didn't remove his mask and hood, even within the confines of his home.

  • More gunfire deafened her in the small confines of the garage, and men screamed and fell.

  • Before the 14th century B.C. the warrior kings of Egypt had carried the power of their arms southward from the delta of the Nile wellnigh to its source, and eastward to the confines of Assyria.

  • He started in 1603, and, after traversing' the least-known parts of Central Asia, he reached the confines of China.

  • But a closer observation of what is going on in the recently colonized confines of the empire - where whole villages live without mixing with the natives, but slowly bringing them over to the Russian manner of life, and then slowly taking in a few female elements from them - gives the key to this feature of Russian life.

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