"confine oneself" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "confines oneself",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "confining oneself",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "confined oneself",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "confined oneself",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "confine oneself (third-person singular simple present confines oneself, present participle confining oneself, simple past and past participle confined oneself)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1680, John Dryden, Ovid’s Epistles translated by several hands, London: Jacob Tonson, Preface,\nHe is to confine himself to the compass of numbers and the slavery of rhyme."
        },
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            [
              83,
              98
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2025 June 11, Christian Wolmar, “First Class delights with an occasional pang of hunger”, in RAIL, number 1037, page 34:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To limit or restrict themself to a certain thing or place."
      ],
      "id": "en-confine_oneself-en-verb-LhL-v~1X",
      "links": [
        [
          "to",
          "to"
        ],
        [
          "limit",
          "limit"
        ],
        [
          "restrict",
          "restrict"
        ],
        [
          "themself",
          "themself"
        ],
        [
          "thing",
          "thing"
        ],
        [
          "place",
          "place"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(reflexive, of a person, often with to) To limit or restrict themself to a certain thing or place."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of a person",
        "with to"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "often",
        "reflexive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "confine oneself"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "confines oneself",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "confining oneself",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "confined oneself",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "confined oneself",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        "English lemmas",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1680, John Dryden, Ovid’s Epistles translated by several hands, London: Jacob Tonson, Preface,\nHe is to confine himself to the compass of numbers and the slavery of rhyme."
        },
        {
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            [
              83,
              98
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2025 June 11, Christian Wolmar, “First Class delights with an occasional pang of hunger”, in RAIL, number 1037, page 34:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To limit or restrict themself to a certain thing or place."
      ],
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        [
          "to",
          "to"
        ],
        [
          "limit",
          "limit"
        ],
        [
          "restrict",
          "restrict"
        ],
        [
          "themself",
          "themself"
        ],
        [
          "thing",
          "thing"
        ],
        [
          "place",
          "place"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(reflexive, of a person, often with to) To limit or restrict themself to a certain thing or place."
      ],
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        "of a person",
        "with to"
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  "word": "confine oneself"
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