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Synonyms for confinement
kənˈfaɪn məntcon·fine·ment

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Princeton's WordNet5.0 / 4 votes

  1. parturiency, labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbednoun

    concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child

    "she was in labor for six hours"

    Synonyms:
    trade union movement, elbow grease, task, proletariat, travail, childbed, labour, effort, project, labor movement, sweat, working class, toil, parturiency, labor, restriction, lying-in, exertion, undertaking

  2. confinementnoun

    the act of restraining of a person's liberty by confining them

    Synonyms:
    labor, parturiency, lying-in, restriction, travail, labour, childbed

  3. confinementnoun

    the state of being confined

    "he was held in confinement"

    Synonyms:
    labor, parturiency, lying-in, restriction, travail, labour, childbed

  4. restriction, confinementnoun

    the act of keeping something within specified bounds (by force if necessary)

    "the restriction of the infection to a focal area"

    Synonyms:
    labour, parturiency, limitation, childbed, restriction, travail, lying-in, labor

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. confinementnoun

    Synonyms:
    restraint

  2. confinementnoun

    Synonyms:
    imprisonment, incarceration, captivity, duress, durance

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. confinementnoun

    Synonyms:
    restraint, imprisonment, durance, duress, incarceration, immurement, limbo, limitation, circumscription, lying-in, childbirth

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How to use confinement in a sentence?

  1. Anthony Kennedy:

    This idea of total incarceration just isn't working and it's not humane, solitary confinement literally drives men mad.

  2. Craig Haney:

    I think the cost of solitary confinement is now being critically examined and rethought, and prison systems are beginning to ask themselves whether this is worth it, and whether or not it does not create more harm than good, courts are pushing them to consider the inhumanity of the practice, as well.

  3. Corinne Le Quéré:

    This drop is not due to structural changes so as soon as confinement ends, I expect the emissions will go back close to where they were.

  4. Carl Mueller:

    She was held in many prisons, she was held in solitary confinement. She was tortured. She was intimidated. She was ultimately raped by al-Baghdadi himself. The Obama administration was criticized over a reported 2015 rescue mission that targetedfour prisoners heldat a makeshift ISIS prison. By the time U.S. commandos stormed the compound, the hostages were already gone. Some relatives and people who worked on the raid blamed the White House for not acting swiftly enough on giving the mission a green light. Specific intelligence had emerged in late Mayproviding officials with the hostages likely location -- including a building, sources told Fox News at the time. The intelligence was described as being.

  5. Christen Kuikoua:

    True liberation begins within. If the chains of the mind persist, the shackles of physical confinement are but an outer reflection of an unfree soul.


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