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confine (someone or an animal) within something to contain someone or an animal within something. We were unable to confine the dog within the yard. Could you confine all your car-repair mess within the garage? See also: within confine someone or an animal to something to limit someone or an animal to a particular place; to imprison someone or an animal in a particular place. Would you please confine the dog to the basement? She confined herself to the small room for over a year because of her fear of crowds. See also: animal confine something to someone or something to limit something or the doing of something to a person or a thing. Please try to confine your comments to John. Can we confine tonight's discussion to the agenda? How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The problem with this approach is that library collection managers must be able to estimate and control their costs in advance and can tolerate unpredictable costs only in fairly confinable subsections of their budgets. Like her grandmother, Sula Peace presents a problem for people who think in binary terms, people who insist that a character be discreet, consistent, and thus confinable. |
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