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English noun: confinement | |||
| 1. | confinement (state) concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child | ||
| Samples | She was in labor for six hours. | ||
| Synonyms | childbed, labor, labour, lying-in, parturiency, travail | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | birth, birthing, giving birth, parturition | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | premature labor, premature labour | ||
| Part holonym | asynclitism, effacement, obliquity, uterine contraction | ||
| Part meronym | gestation, maternity, pregnancy | ||
| 2. | confinement (act) the act of restraining of a person's liberty by confining them | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | restraint | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | commitment, committal, consignment, house arrest, imprisonment, internment | ||
| 3. | confinement (state) the state of being confined | ||
| Samples | He was held in confinement. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | subjection, subjugation | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | captivity, constraint, custody, detainment, detention, hold, immurement, imprisonment, incarceration, restraint, solitary, solitary confinement | ||
| 4. | confinement (act) the act of keeping something within specified bounds (by force if necessary) | ||
| Samples | The restriction of the infection to a focal area. | ||
| Synonyms | restriction | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | restraint | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | circumscription, classification, constraint, specification, stipulation | ||
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