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confinement::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | restriction |
| Type of | restraint |
| Has types | classification, stipulation, specification, circumscription, constraint |
confinement::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | childbed, labor, labour, lying-in, parturiency, travail |
| Type of | giving birth, birth, birthing, parturition |
| Has types | premature labour, premature labor |
confinement::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | restraint |
| Has types | consignment, imprisonment, committal, commitment, internment, house arrest |
| Derivation | confine |
confinement::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | subjugation, subjection |
| Has types | incarceration, captivity, imprisonment, immurement, restraint, solitary, solitary confinement, hold, detention, detainment, custody, constraint |
| Derivation | confine |
he was held in confinement.
Examples of confinement
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He said he also suffered from the psychological effects of solitary confinement.
From the bostonherald.com
Marriage to them is synonymous to forced confinement with an unwelcome stranger.
From the themuslimweekly.com
It's not just an issue of slaughter, but one of lifelong confinement and misery.
From the sacbee.com
About building a little chamber of confinement upstairs, in one of the bedrooms.
From the theatlantic.com
Better results seemed to come from sensory deprivation and solitary confinement.
From the theatlantic.com
Confinement of fractional quantum number particles in a condensed-matter system.
From the sciencedaily.com
Animal rights groups and scientists have condemned the confinement of the shark.
From the washingtonpost.com
You know, the corporate farms move in and the big confinement sheds and whatnot.
From the washingtonpost.com
Mo and his brother Yunis were tortured and spent a year in solitary confinement.
From the newsweek.com
- Parturiency: concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours"
- The act of restraining of a person's liberty by confining them
- The state of being confined; "he was held in confinement"
- Restriction: the act of keeping something within specified bounds (by force if necessary); "the restriction of the infection to a focal area"
- (confined) not invading healthy tissue
- (confined) not free to move about
- (confined) captive: being in captivity
- (confining) restricting the scope or freedom of action
- (Confined (song)) Confined is the first single from the metalcore band As I Lay Dying's third album Shadows Are Security. There is a video made for the song as well.
