'Confinement' definitions:
Definition of 'confinement'
(from WordNet)
noun
Concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours" [syn: parturiency, labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed]
noun
The act of restraining of a person's liberty by confining them
noun
The state of being confined; "he was held in confinement"
noun
The act of keeping something within specified bounds (by force if necessary); "the restriction of the infection to a focal area" [syn: restriction, confinement]
Definition of 'Confinement'
From: GCIDE
- Confinement \Con*fine"ment\, n.
- 1. Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion. [1913 Webster]
- The mind hates restraint, and is apt to fancy itself under confinement when the sight is pent up. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Restraint within doors by sickness, esp. that caused by childbirth; lying-in. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'confinement'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accouchement,
- beleaguerment,
- besetment,
- birth,
- birth throes,
- birthing,
- blessed event,
- blockade,
- blockading,
- boundary,
- bounds,
- childbearing,
- childbed,
- childbirth,
- circumscription,
- closeness,
- constraint,
- continence,
- cordoning,
- cramp,
- cramping,
- crowdedness,
- delivery,
- discipline,
- dismemberment,
- enclosure,
- envelopment,
- estrapade,
- galleys,
- genesis,
- giving birth,
- hair,
- hairbreadth,
- hairsbreadth,
- hard labor,
- hatching,
- having a baby,
- immurement,
- impalement,
- imprisonment,
- incapaciousness,
- incarceration,
- inclusion,
- incommodiousness,
- jailing,
- keelhauling,
- labor,
- limit,
- limitation,
- martyrdom,
- moderation,
- multiparity,
- narrow gauge,
- narrowness,
- nascency,
- nativity,
- nearness,
- parturition,
- penal servitude,
- picketing,
- prescription,
- proscription,
- qualification,
- quarantine,
- railriding,
- restrain,
- restraint,
- restrictedness,
- restriction,
- rock pile,
- siege,
- slenderness,
- stint,
- straitness,
- strappado,
- strictness,
- tar-and-feathering,
- the gantlet,
- the Nativity,
- the stork,
- tight squeeze,
- tightness,
- torment,
- torture,
- travail