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confine oneself en · VERB
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(of a person, often, reflexive, with to) To limit or restrict themself to a certain thing or place.
1680, John Dryden, Ovid’s Epistles translated by several hands, London: Jacob Tonson, Preface,
He is to confine himself to the compass of numbers and the slavery of rhyme.
There was no limit on drinks, and the guy next to me tucked away a few G and Ts. I confined myself to a pleasant Brewdog Ale and a glass of slightly insipid wine.
2025 June 11, Christian Wolmar, “First Class delights with an occasional pang of hunger”, in RAIL, number 1037, page 34:
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