confinement
[noun]
Synonyms:
- imprisonment, custody, detention, incarceration, internment, porridge (slang)
- childbirth, childbed, labour, lying-in, parturition

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Related Words: parturition, labor, travail

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

con‧fine‧ment /kənˈfaɪnmənt/ noun
[Word Family: noun: confinement, confines; verb: confine; adjective: confined]

1. [uncountable] formal the act of putting someone in a room, prison etc that they are not allowed to leave, or the state of being there:
They were held in confinement for three weeks.
He visited prisoners at their place of confinement. ⇒ solitary confinement

2. [uncountable and countable] old-fashioned or formal the time when a woman gives birth to a baby:
the pros and cons of home versus hospital confinement

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

confinement
noun
ADJ. close The animals are kept in close confinement.
solitary
VERB + CONFINEMENT be held in, be kept in | be placed in, be put in
PREP. in ~ He spent eleven years in solitary confinement.
~ to their confinement to army barracks

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