verb
place limits on (extent or amount or access)
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- restrict the use of this parking lot
- limit the time you can spend with your friends
verb
prevent from leaving or from being removed
verb
close in
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- darkness enclosed him
verb
deprive of freedom
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- take into confinement
verb
to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement
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- 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