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Confinement

Confinement Meaning & Definition
Confinement Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Confinement?

[n] the act of restraining of a person's liberty by confining them
[n] the state of being confined; "he was held in confinement"
[n] concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of labor to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Confinement: childbed | labor | labour | lying-in | parturiency | travail

Related Terms | Find terms related to 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 gantlet | the Nativity | the stork | tight squeeze | tightness | torment | torture | travail

See Also | asynclitism | birth | birthing | captivity | commitment | committal | consignment | constraint | custody | detention | effacement | gestation | giving birth | hold | house arrest | immurement | imprisonment | imprisonment | incarceration | internment | obliquity | parturition | pregnancy | premature labor | premature labour | restraint | restraint | solitary | solitary confinement | subjection | subjugation | uterine contraction

Confinement In Webster's Dictionary

\Con*fine"ment\, n. 1. Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion. The mind hates restraint, and is apt to fancy itself under confinement when the sight is pent up. --Addison. 2. Restraint within doors by sickness, esp. that caused by childbirth; lying-in.

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