Difference between Confines and Restrain

CONFINES vs RESTRAIN: NOUN

To hold back or keep in check; control.
To prevent (a person or group) from doing something or acting in a certain way.
To draw back again; to hold back from acting, proceeding, or advancing, either by physical or moral force, or by any interposing obstacle; to repress or suppress; to keep down; to curb.
To draw back toghtly, as a rein.
To hinder from unlimited enjoiment; to abridge.
To limit; to confine; to restrict.
To withhold; to forbear.
To hold, fasten, or secure so as to prevent or limit movement.

To draw tight; strain.
To hold back; hold in; check; confine; hold from action or motion, either by physical or moral force, or by any interposing obstacle; hence, to repress or suppress: as, to restrain a horse by a bridle; to restrain men from crimes and trespasses by laws; to restrain, laughter.
To abridge; restrict; hinder from liberty of action.
To limit; confine; restrict in definition.
To withhold; forbear.
To forbid; prohibit.
Synonyms Restrain, Repress, Restrict; stop, withhold, curb, bridle, coerce. Restrain and repress are general words for holding or pressing back; restrict applies to holding back to a more definite degree: as, to restrain one's appetite; to restrict one's self in food or to a certain diet. That which we restrain we keep within limits; that which we restrict we keep within certain definite limits; that which we repress we try to put out of existence.
To close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement
Restrict (someone or something) so as to make free movement difficult
Prevent (someone or something) from doing something
Prevent the action or expression of
Keep under control
Keep in check

Fringes, Limits, Walls, Boundaries, Hold in, Throttle, Bound, Hold, Trammel, Detain, Limit, Enclose, Circumscribe, Restrain, Restrict

Subdue, Keep back, Hold back, Cumber, Bound, Throttle, Hold, Trammel, Encumber, Limit, Keep, Restrict, Confine, Intimidate, Constrain

Limitations, Scope, Constraints, Fringes, Limits, Walls, Throttle, Bound, Hold, Detain, Limit, Enclose, Circumscribe, Restrain, Restrict

Curtail, Suppress, Rein, Subdue, Keep back, Bound, Throttle, Hold, Encumber, Limit, Keep, Restrict, Confine, Intimidate, Constrain

Cameramen and boom operators worked nimbly within tight confines.
Education that goes beyond the confines of academics for.
Alienation Nurtured in the Old Confines of Social Media.
But the right is only available within narrow confines.
American western, often within the confines of a studio.
Under these strict confines, minimalism makes a rational argument.
So in a way, having power confines you.
This proclamation confines legislative negotiation to specific subjects.
Jews were forced to live within its confines.
What they can do is operate within the confines of the rules, within the confines of the sentencing parameters.