To thrust or crush (into a confined space); to shut up, confine, bind; figurative to confine, restrict (quot. 1374); in quot. 1400, to bind tightly…

= circumscribe, v.

transitive. To confine, restrict, or limit in location or in action.

figurative.

transitive. To confine within limits, to set bounds to (rarely in concrete sense); to bound, restrict. Const. to. †Also: to prohibit (a person) from…

transitive. To check, repress, or keep back (a desire, emotion, etc.).

transitive. To confine, limit, or constrain (a person); †to trap or pin down (a person) in an argument (obsolete). Also: to restrict (an idea, a…

transitive. To confine, limit, restrict. Now rare.

To confine within narrow limits; figurative to restrict.

To mark out or lay down the limits of; to enclose within limits, limit, bound, confine (usually figurative); esp. to confine within narrow limits…

transitive. To limit (a person or thing); to confine to or within certain limits.

To shut up or comprehend within definite limits; to restrict, confine. (Also with up.) Obsolete.

transitive. To limit or restrict; to make less or smaller; to contract; to reduce.

transitive. To set limits to (something); to limit.

transitive. To restrict (a person, his share or right) with respect to quantity or number; to limit in amount of allowance or indulgence.

transitive. To place in or as in a chamber; to shut up, confine, enclose (literal and figurative). Now archaic and rare.

figurative. To restrict, limit, confine.

To fasten with cramp-irons or cramps; figurative to cramp, confine.

To restrict, limit, confine. (Also reflexive.) Obsolete.

transitive. (After Latin finire.) To assign a limit or boundary to; to limit. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To restrict or confine within limits; to circumscribe. (Now the usual sense.)

transitive. To shut up or confine in an enclosure; to confine within any bounds or limits, material or otherwise; occasionally with up. Also figur…

figurative. To keep within bounds, limit, restrict.

figurative. To keep within bounds, confine, limit.

figurative. To cut short, limit, abridge, circumscribe; to cut off. Obsolete.

figurative. To restrain within bounds, to limit.

figurative. To confine, restrict, limit.

transitive. figurative. Paired with bound: to establish the limits of (something); to delimit, to demarcate. rare after 17th cent.

transitive. To limit, restrict, restrain, circumscribe; to confine within bounds. rare.

transitive. To hold fast, esp. in such a way as to make escape or resistance difficult; to hold down so as to restrict actions or movement. Also in…