mark off vs confine

mark off and confine both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
mark off	No	No	Yes	No
confine	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, confine is a hypernym of mark off; that is, confine is a word with a broader meaning than mark off:

Other hypernyms of mark off include bound, limit, restrict, throttle, trammel.

mark off (verb)	confine (verb)
set boundaries to and delimit	place limits on (extent or amount or access)
put a check mark on or near or next to	to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement
	prevent from leaving or from being removed
	deprive of freedom; take into confinement
	close in