Alone
Alone adjective - Not being in the company of others.
Confined
Confined adjective - Taken and held prisoner.
Alone and confined are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Alone" instead an adjective "Confined".
Nearby Words: confinement, confining
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- The narrator ends up confined somewhere, alone, being tortured by horrible creatures for no discernable reason... and the last line cuts off in the middle of SCP-682's Catch Phrase.
Source: The All-Concealing I -
Marion Crawford's short story "The Upper Berth" (1894) where the haunting is not just in just one cabin on a ship, but mostly confined to the upper berth, leaving the person in the lower berth alone.
Source: Hell Hotel - In Morrowind, the guards are confined to their respective locations, meaning you can enter/exit an area and any guards outside of the location where the offense took place will leave you alone unless you speak to them (unless your bounty is very high, such as through murder).
Source: Spiteful A.I.
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