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