confine
verb (used with object)
to enclose within bounds; limit or restrict.
confinable
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a word derived from
confine.
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He eased the Chinese Nationalist crisis through the U.N.; the U.S. recently flew out more than half of the Nationalists to Formosa, and the rest are considered leaderless and confinable.
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