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  2. Learn the meaning of confide in someone, a phrasal verb that means to share your feelings and secrets with someone because you trust them. See examples, synonyms, translations and related words.

    • English (US)

      to share your feelings and secrets with someone because you...

  3. Confine means to limit, keep, or restrict something or someone in some way. It can also mean to exist only in a particular area or group of people. See how to use confine in sentences and compare it with related words.

  4. to share your feelings and secrets with someone because you trust them not to tell other people: She's nice, but I don't feel I can confide in her. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Revealing secrets & becoming known. anti-secrecy.

  5. Confinement means you're being held and you can't move freely. Confinement doesn't have to be punishment. If you've got a contagious disease, your doctor may recommend confinement to your hospital room. Puppies sometimes prefer confinement in a crate to sleeping in an open room.

  6. Learn the meaning and usage of the verb and noun confine, which means to limit or restrict something or someone to a place or group. Find out the pronunciation, word frequency, and related words of confine.

  7. [usually passive] to keep a person or an animal in a small or closed space. be confined (in something) Keep the dog confined in a suitable travelling cage. Here the river is confined in a narrow channel. The soldiers concerned were confined to barracks (= had to stay in the barracks, as a punishment).

  8. to shut or keep in; prevent from leaving a place because of imprisonment, illness, discipline, etc.: For that offense he was confined to quarters for 30 days. Antonyms: free. noun. Usually confines. a boundary or bound; limit; border; frontier. Often confines. region; territory. Archaic. confinement. Obsolete. a place of confinement; prison.