confine oneself

English

Verb

confine oneself (third-person singular simple present confines oneself, present participle confining oneself, simple past and past participle confined oneself)

  1. (reflexive, of a person, often 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,[1]
      He is to confine himself to the compass of numbers and the slavery of rhyme.
    • 2025 June 11, Christian Wolmar, “First Class delights with an occasional pang of hunger”, in RAIL, number 1037, page 34:
      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.
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