Confine
Set
Set verb - To cover and warm eggs as the young inside develop.
Common collocations
| path | confine path | set path |
Both words in one sentence
- The government tried to confine everyone else to the countryside, where they set up ten Bantustans, "native homelands".
Source: Useful Notes / The Apartheid Era -
Almost every comic book has some sort of "super villain" prison where they set up specific cells to confine the villain depending on his abilities.
Source: Tailor-Made Prison - They require that the personages of a tale shall confine themselves to possibilities and let miracles alone; or, if they venture a miracle, the author must so plausibly set it forth as to make it look possible and reasonable.
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