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Confining
- verb - close in; darkness enclosed him"
- crowded;
- deprive of freedom; take into confinement
- place limits on (extent or access); "restrict the use of this parking lot"; "limit the time you can spend with your friends"
- prevent from leaving or from being removed
- restrict or confine, "I limit you to two visits to the pub a day"
- restricting the scope or freedom of action
- to close within bounds, limit or hold back from movement; "This holds the local until the express passengers change trains"; "About a dozen animals were held inside the stockade"; "The illegal immigrants were held at a detention center"; "The terrorists held the journalists for ransom"
Confusing
- verb - assemble without order or sense; "She jumbles the words when she is supposed to write a sentence"
- be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly; "These questions confuse even the experts"; "This question completely threw me"; "This question befuddled even the teacher"
- cause to feel embarrassment; "The constant attention of the young man confused her"
- causing confusion or disorientation; "a confusing jumble of road signs"; "being hospitalized can be confusing and distressing for a small child"
- lacking clarity of meaning; causing confusion or perplexity; "sent confusing signals to Iraq"; "perplexing to someone who knew nothing about it"; "a puzzling statement"
- make unclear, indistinct, or blurred; "Her remarks confused the debate"; "Their words obnubilate their intentions"
- mistake one thing for another; "you are confusing me with the other candidate"; "I mistook her for the secretary"
Confuting
- verb - prove to be false; "The physicist disproved his colleagues' theories"
Congeeing
- verb - depart after obtaining formal permission; "He has congeed with the King"
- perform a ceremonious bow
Conjuring
- verb - ask for or request earnestly; "The prophet bid all people to become good persons"
- calling up a spirit or devil
- engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together; "They conspired to overthrow the government"
- summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic; "raise the specter of unemployment"; "he conjured wild birds in the air"; "call down the spirits from the mountain"
Conniving
- verb - acting together in secret toward a fraudulent or illegal end
- encourage or assent to illegally or criminally
- form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner
- used of persons; "the most calculating and selfish men in the community"
Connoting
- verb - express or state indirectly
- involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic; "solving the problem is predicated on understanding it well"
Consoling
- verb - affording comfort or solace
- give moral or emotional strength to
Consuming
- verb - destroy completely; "The fire consumed the building"
- eat immoderately; "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal"
- engage fully; "The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy"
- serve oneself to, or consume regularly; "Have another bowl of chicken soup!"; "I don't take sugar in my coffee"
- spend extravagantly;
- use up (resources or materials);
- very intense; "politics is his consuming passion"; "overwhelming joy"
Contusing
- verb - injure the underlying soft tissue or bone of; "I bruised my knee"