confinephoneticPhoneticPhoneticPhoneticPhoneticPhoneticPhoneticPhoneticPhoneticphonetic verb [T]
1. to limit (someone or something)
    I don't like a job in which I'm confined to doing only one thing.
  You are asked to confine your use of the telephone to business calls alone.

2. 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.
   It's an attitude which seems to be confined to the upper classes.

3. 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.

This page is cited from Cambridge Dictionaries Online. For the original, please visit
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=confine*1+0