Meaning of confine oneself | Babel Free

Definitions

To limit or restrict themself to a certain thing or place.

often, reflexive

Examples

“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.”

“There was no limit on drinks, and the guy next to me tucked away a few G and Ts. I confined myself to a pleasant Brewdog Ale and a glass of slightly insipid wine.”

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