CONFINING Synonyms: 75 Similar and Opposite Words

confining

verb

present participle of confine

as in limiting

to set bounds or an upper limit for will confine my remarks to the subject we came here to discuss

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as in imprisoning

to put in or as if in prison the accused was confined until the trial could take place

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Recent Examples of confining Use a summer-friendly baby carrier The combination of your body heat and the carrier’s confining space can make an infant hot and bothered within a matter of minutes. — Nancy Mattia, Parents, 8 July 2026 Plants are also unbothered by confining pavement and other urban challenges. — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 24 June 2026 The requirement to add wheels increases costs and can limit where these homes are allowed, due to zoning restrictions, often confining them to mobile home parks. — Samantha Delouya, CNN Money, 23 June 2026 One person was cited on suspicion of unlawfully capturing and confining wildlife. — Isabel Beer, Sacbee.com, 17 June 2026 Only one of the suspects was issued a citation for unlawfully capturing and confining wildlife, the news release said. — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2026 Bell reviewed testimony from CDC officials and an outside medical expert concerning Perryman’s challenge to an earlier order confining her to the National Quarantine Unit at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. — ABC News, 16 June 2026 Bushmaster upgrade Thales designed RapidStriker to work across multiple combat vehicles instead of confining it to a dedicated platform. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 16 June 2026 One of the suspects was issued a citation for unlawfully capturing and confining wildlife. — CBS News, 11 June 2026

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That was the lone shot on target generated in the first half, with both teams limiting opportunities in the final third in a physical and chippy opening 45 minutes.

— Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 July 2026
Stopping him remains the key to limiting Argentina, but doing that is easier said than done.

— The Athletic Soccer Experts, New York Times, 14 July 2026

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The turn of events prompt the narrator to re-examine his life as a gay Latine son of immigrants whose hometown is now imprisoning people like him.

— Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 2 July 2026
Trump, in one of his Truth Social posts, cited laws against defacing monuments as grounds for imprisoning anyone harming the pool.

— Nathan Ellgren, Chicago Tribune, 22 June 2026

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Ortiz allegedly grabbed the woman’s face and neck, threw her to the ground and strangled her, restricting her breathing for about a minute, the prosecutor said in court.

— Sally Krutzig, Idaho Statesman, 15 July 2026
The researchers suspect that harvestmen may target strategic regions of the amphibian's body, thereby significantly restricting the frog's movements.

— Jay Kakade July 13, New Atlas, 14 July 2026

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Also contentious was last year’s jailing of former Trade Minister Thomas Lembong over sugar import permits a decade ago despite no evidence of personal financial gain.

— Chandra Asmara, Fortune, 30 June 2026
Officials have said that the hope is to provide safer jailing of people in custody, in smaller population numbers, closer to their communities.

— Amethyst Martinez, USA Today, 30 June 2026

Definition of jailing

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Simmons, a native of Buffalo, New York, got his start interning for Ani DiFranco, whose Righteous Babe Records was based in town.

— Shirley Halperin, Rolling Stone, 2 July 2026
Pruitt also ran varsity cross-country and track and spent last summer interning for the Henry County Water Authority, tapping into his passion for clean water and the environment.

— Erin Clack, PEOPLE, 14 June 2026

Definition of interning

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Officials reinforced stay-at-home orders by erecting fences around some apartment buildings, essentially incarcerating occupants.

— Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 1 Apr. 2026
In 1942, as the government was forcibly relocating and incarcerating Japanese Americans on the West Coast, a nativist group hoped to revoke the citizenship of Japanese Americans born in the United States.

— Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 28 Mar. 2026

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