Meanings (ES + gloss)
confín • raya
A boundary or limit.
Phrases
Word forms
Meanings (ES + gloss)
confinar • encorsetar
To restrict (someone or something) to a particular scope or area; to keep in or within certain bounds.
1680, John Dryden, Ovid’s Epistles translated by several hands, London: Jacob Tonson, Preface, He is to confine himself to the compass of numbers and the slavery of rhyme.
Now let not nature's hand / Keep the wild flood confined! let order die!