confining oneself

Verb

confine oneself (third-person singular simple present confines oneself, present participle confining oneself, simple past and past participle confined oneself)

1. (often, reflexive) To limit or restrict themself to a certain thing or place.
   • He is to confine himself to the compass of numbers and the slavery of rhyme.1680, John Dryden, Ovid’s Epistles translated by several hands, London: Jacob Tonson, Preface