The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word CONFINED
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result CONFINED
- Prison punished and kept in cell?
- Political party made to pay, shut up
- Fraudster punished and imprisoned
- Prisoner given extra punishment and not let out?
- Criminal given punishment is put inside
- Do okay with daughter kept in
- Imprisoned or otherwise punished after swindle
- Criminal penalised and imprisoned
- Jailbird punished and restrained
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What does CONFINED mean?
CONFINED verb- To restrict; to keep within bounds; to shut or keep in a limited space or area.
- To have a common boundary; to border; to lie contiguous; to touch; followed by on or with.
- Not free to move.
- Limited; narrow; restricted.
- In childbed.