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Confinement
see synonyms of confinementNoun
1. childbed, confinement, labor, labour, lying-in, parturiency, travail
concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child
Example Sentences:'she was in labor for six hours'
2. confinement
the act of restraining of a person's liberty by confining them
3. confinement
the state of being confined
Example Sentences:'he was held in confinement'
4. confinement, restriction
the act of keeping something within specified bounds (by force if necessary)
Example Sentences:'the restriction of the infection to a focal area'
WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.
Confinement
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Confinement
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Confinement
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