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The borders or limits of an area. examples
Elements that restrain someone. quotations examples
"I think that there comes a point where people begin to get bored within their own confines, so there is definitely an opportunity to encourage travel - even though it will be a different sort of arrangement than we've been used to in the past.
2020 December 2, Mark Phillips, “Rebuilding Rail in the 2020s”, in Rail, page 46
The scope or range of a subject. examples
third-person singular simple present indicative of confine examples