Meaning of CONFINEMENT
| Pronunciation: | | kun'fInmunt
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- [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"
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CONFINEMENT is a 11 letter word that starts with C. |
| | Synonyms: | | childbed, labor, labour, lying-in, parturiency, travail |
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| | 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 | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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