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
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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
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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

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

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.

  • The Jew had passed from the narrow confines of his homeland into a wider world, and this larger vision of human life reacted on the prophet's theology.

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