confine

1.[oftpass]~ sb/sth to sth限制；限定to keep sb/sth inside the limits of a particular activity, subject, area, etc.

2.[usupass]~ sb/sth (in sth)监禁；禁闭to keep a person or an animal in a small or closed space

3.be confined to bed, a wheelchair, etc.使离不开（或受困于床、轮椅等）to have to stay in bed, in a wheelchair , etc.

1.限制 (to; within);【物】约束,吸持

2.幽禁;监禁;使闭居,蛰居

3.〈罕〉接界,邻接 (with)

1.限度;范围

2.境界,界限,国界,疆界;边界,边境

1.to force someone to stay in a place and prevent them from leaving; to make someone stay in a place because they are too ill or weak to leave

2.to prevent something dangerous from spreading

3.if something is confined to one area or group of people, it happens only in that area or affects only that group of people; to keep an activity within particular limits