Confinement \Con*fine"ment\, n.
1. Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of
liberty; seclusion.
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The mind hates restraint, and is apt to fancy itself
under confinement when the sight is pent up.
--Addison.
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2. Restraint within doors by sickness, esp. that caused by
childbirth; lying-in.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
confinement
n 1: concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of labor to
the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours"
[syn: parturiency, labor, labour, lying-in, travail,
childbed]
2: the act of restraining of a person's liberty by confining
them
3: the state of being confined; "he was held in confinement"
WordNet (r) 2.0
85 Moby Thesaurus words for "confinement":
accouchement, beleaguerment, besetment, birth, birth throes,
birthing, blessed event, blockade, blockading, boundary, bounds,
childbearing, childbed, childbirth, circumscription, closeness,
constraint, continence, cordoning, cramp, cramping, crowdedness,
delivery, discipline, dismemberment, enclosure, envelopment,
estrapade, galleys, genesis, giving birth, hair, hairbreadth,
hairsbreadth, hard labor, hatching, having a baby, immurement,
impalement, imprisonment, incapaciousness, incarceration,
inclusion, incommodiousness, jailing, keelhauling, labor, limit,
limitation, martyrdom, moderation, multiparity, narrow gauge,
narrowness, nascency, nativity, nearness, parturition,
penal servitude, picketing, prescription, proscription,
qualification, quarantine, railriding, restrain, restraint,
restrictedness, restriction, rock pile, siege, slenderness, stint,
straitness, strappado, strictness, tar-and-feathering,
the Nativity, the gantlet, the stork, tight squeeze, tightness,
torment, torture, travail
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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