CONFINEMENT


Meaning of CONFINEMENT in English

n. 25B6; noun

solitary confinement : IMPRISONMENT, internment, incarceration, custody, captivity, detention, restraint; house arrest.

the confinement of an animal : CAGING, enclosure; quarantine.

(dated) she went to hospital for her confinement : LABOUR, delivery, birthing; birth, childbirth; formal parturition; archaic lying-in, childbed.

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