confine

Verb

• 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
    

• deprive of freedom; take into confinement

• close in; darkness enclosed him"

• prevent from leaving or from being removed

• restrict or confine, "I limit you to two visits to the pub a day"

• place limits on (extent or access)
  • restrict the use of this parking lot
    
  • limit the time you can spend with your friends
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  restrain , hold , detain , enclose , hold in , limit , circumscribe , restrict , trammel , bound , throttle
• Antonyms: 
  free , liberate , release , unloose , unloosen , loose