CONFINE

[verb] [T] - to limit (someone or something)I don't like a job in which I'm confined to doing only one thing. [T]You are asked to confine your use of the telephone to business calls alone.Could you confine your discussion to the matter in question, please! [T]By closing the infected farms we're hoping to confine the disease (= stop it from spreading). [T]Something might be confined to a particular area or group of people if it appears only to exist there.It is now known that the illness is not confined to any one group in society. [T]It's an attitude which seems to be confined to the upper classes. [T]If a person is confined, they are kept, often by force, in an enclosed place.He had been confined for so long that he couldn't cope with the outside world.