How do you say “confine” in Vietnamese?

“Confine” in Vietnamese is nhốt (to confine).

Vietnamese words for “confine”

• nhốtListenverb
  Hanoi [ɲot̚˧˦] · Saigon [ɲok̚˦˥]nhốt rising

  to confine; to impound

  for “confine” meaning: To restrict (someone or something) to a particular scope or area; to keep in or within certain bounds.

  • Anh ấy tự nhốt mình trong phòng.He confined himself to his room.

Related Vietnamese words

• cấm cốListenverb

  to detain; confine; restrain

• giam cầmListenverb

  to imprison; confine

• hạn chếListenverb

  to limit; to restrict; to restrain

• biên giớiListennoun

  a frontier

Translations matched from English Wiktionary (translation tables and Vietnamese entries, via kaikki.org; CC BY-SA 4.0) and the NgonNgu English–Vietnamese dictionary, reviewed and edited; examples from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). The Listen button uses your browser's Vietnamese voice.