confine in WordNet English dictionary

1. place limits on (extent or access)
   "restrict the use of this parking lot"; "limit the time you can spend with your friends"
   restrict  restrain  trammel  limit  bound  confine  throttle 
   
2. restrict or confine, "I limit you to two visits to the pub a day"
   limit  circumscribe  confine 
   
3. to close within bounds, limit or hold back from movement
   "This holds the local until the express passengers change trains"; "About a dozen animals were held inside the stockade"; "The illegal immigrants were held at a detention center"; "The terrorists held the journalists for ransom"
   restrain  confine  hold 
   
4. prevent from leaving or from being removed
   confine 
   
5. deprive of freedom; take into confinement
   confine  detain 
   
6. close in; darkness enclosed him"
   enclose  hold in  confine