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Synonyms for confinement
kənˈfaɪn məntcon·fine·ment
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Princeton's WordNet
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"
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trade union movement, elbow grease, task, proletariat, travail, childbed, labour, effort, project, labor movement, sweat, working class, toil, parturiency, labor, restriction, lying-in, exertion, undertakingconfinementnoun
the act of restraining of a person's liberty by confining them
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labor, parturiency, lying-in, restriction, travail, labour, childbedconfinementnoun
the state of being confined
"he was held in confinement"
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labor, parturiency, lying-in, restriction, travail, labour, childbedrestriction, 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
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
confinementnoun
Synonyms:
restraintconfinementnoun
Synonyms:
imprisonment, incarceration, captivity, duress, durance
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
confinementnoun
Synonyms:
restraint, imprisonment, durance, duress, incarceration, immurement, limbo, limitation, circumscription, lying-in, childbirth
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "confinement":
containment, isolation, childbirth, internment, detention, confining, imprisonment, lockdown, incommunicado, reclusion, insulation, incarceration, birth, placement, custody, delivery, hospitalization, seclusion
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#288 | project | |
#673 | delivery | |
#1992 | effort | |
#2035 | task | |
#2137 | labor | |
#2223 | birth | |
#3526 | labour | |
#4526 | placement | |
#6994 | limitation | |
#7664 | custody | |
#7800 | restriction | |
#8045 | isolation | |
#9977 | insulation | |
#10067 | detention | |
#10703 | sweat | |
#11236 | undertaking | |
#13920 | imprisonment | |
#16250 | containment | |
#18461 | childbirth | |
#19967 | confinement | |
#23277 | hospitalization | |
#28482 | incarceration | |
#29951 | travail | |
#31610 | lockdown | |
#35150 | toil | |
#38020 | exertion | |
#43160 | seclusion | |
#44228 | proletariat | |
#45055 | internment | |
#51173 | confining | |
#80002 | incommunicado | |
#249008 | reclusion |
How to use confinement in a sentence?
It's important that someone celebrate our existence... People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large. Solitary confinement is a punishment in every human culture.
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.
Matt was held in an undisclosed location in solitary confinement for over five months, with no charge, no lawyer and very limited consular access.
Imagine all the women that have been locked down with a man that is causing them harm... many of these women have reported this to the police before, they could have been reached out to and taken away before the confinement started.
French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe:
It is likely that we are not heading towards a general de-confinement in one go and for everyone.
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