Definitions for confinement

Definitions for (noun) confinement

Main entry: confinement

Definition: the act of restraining of a person's liberty by confining them


Main entry: restriction, confinement

Definition: the act of keeping something within specified bounds (by force if necessary)

Usage: the restriction of the infection to a focal area


Main entry: confinement

Definition: the state of being confined

Usage: he was held in confinement


Main entry: travail, childbed, parturiency, confinement, labor, labour, lying-in

Definition: concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child

Usage: she was in labor for six hours


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