Confinement synonyms

kən-fīn'mənt

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limitation
A restriction.
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imprisonment
A confinement in a place, especially a prison.
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circumscription
The act of circumscribing or the quality of being circumscribed
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repression
(Psychiatry) The mechanism by which ideas, impulses, etc. are repressed
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charge
The departure from electrical neutrality at a point, or in a region, as by the accumulation, or deficit, of electrical particles: more electrons than normal produce a negative charge; fewer, a positive charge
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bonds
Plural form of bond
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constraint
(Mathematics) A condition that a solution to an optimization problem must satisfy.
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limbo
A condition of prolonged uncertainty or neglect:
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control
A restraining device, measure, or limit; a curb:
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coercion
The act or practice of coercing.
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keeping
Maintenance; support; provision; feed.
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safekeeping
(US) not returning checks; a system wherein banks keep checks (cheques) that people write, rather than returning them to the account holder with their monthly statement.
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custody
The immediate control, guarding, or keeping of a thing for its care, inspection, preservation, or security.
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quarantine
(Computing) A place where email messages or other files which are suspected of harboring a virus are stored.
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curb
A market, originally on a street or sidewalk, for trading securities that are not listed on a stock exchange.
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bounds
Plural form of bound.
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trammels
Plural form of trammel
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check
A draft signed by a person (the drawer or maker) that directs a bank (the drawee) to pay, on demand and without conditions, a specific sum of money to another person (the payee). Usually the funds are withdrawn from an account or a deposit that the drawer or maker has with the bank. Also called cheque.
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closeness
The state of being mean or stingy
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detention
A period of temporary custody while awaiting trial.
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incarceration
Formerly, strangulation, as in hernia.
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immuration
The state of being confined
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accouchement
Confinement for giving birth to a child; childbirth
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childbed
(Countable) The bed in which a baby is born
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delivery
The act of giving birth
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parturition
The act of bringing forth young; childbirth
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childbirth
The human act or process of giving birth; parturition.
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travail
Hardship; trouble
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labor
American standard spelling of labour.
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one's time
The period that accompanies childbirth
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freedom (antonym)
Ease or facility of movement:
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release (antonym)
The definition of a release is a letting go, setting free or relief.
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independence (antonym)
(Archaic) Sufficient income for comfortable self-support; a competence.
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chains (related)
Plural form of chain
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jail (related)
(Uncountable) Confinement in a jail.
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restraint (related)
The act of restraining.
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captivity
The definition of captivity is the state of being trapped, imprisoned or confined.
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durance
Confinement or restraint by force; imprisonment.
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duress
The application of force, or the threat of force, to compel another to act against his or her will. Used as a defense in criminal and contractual matters, for example, that a defendant participated in a crime because held at gunpoint, or signed a contract only under the threat of physical harm. See also economic duress.
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immurement
Capital punishment by entombing for life.
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internment
The act of interning or confining, especially in wartime.
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isolation
The act of isolating:
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liberation (antonym)
The process of striving to achieve equal rights and status.
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ward
Each of the parts or divisions of a jail or prison
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restriction
A restricting or being restricted
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free (related)
(Hurling) The usual means of restarting play after a foul is committed, where the non-offending team restarts from where the foul was committed.
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limited (related)
A limited train or bus.
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labour
Labour is the British spelling of the world labor, which is defined as work.
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railriding
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estrapade
The rearing, plunging, and kicking actions of a horse trying to get rid of its rider.
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strappado
A form of torture in which the victim is lifted off the ground by a rope attached to the wrists, which have been tied behind the back, and then is dropped partway to the ground with a jerk.
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tar-and-feathering
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Confinement Sentence Examples

  • His confinement was strict and injured his health, but he was allowed the use of books.

  • When her confinement is due, send to Moscow for an accoucheur....

  • At a later period he was released from close confinement and allowed to settle in Mexico, where a pension was given him.

  • The offender, whether simoniacus (one who had bought his orders) or simoniace promotus (one who had bought his promotion), was liable to deprivation of his benefice and deposition from orders if a secular priest, - to confinement in a stricter monastery if a regular.

  • He was kept in confinement a fortnight, and was then packed off to England in accordance with his own request.

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