Antonyms for confinement
kənˈfaɪn məntcon·fine·ment

Matched Categories

1. • Parturition
   • Restraint
   • Subjugation

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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

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1. confinementnoun

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

How to use confinement in a sentence?

1. Martin Tobias Lithner:

   Tunneling through barriers, particles defy the boundaries of our classical confinement, revealing the audacious spirit of quantum defiance against the imprisoning walls of determinism.

2. John Rozel:

   The use of isolation and solitary confinement is often proffered as a stop-gap intervention, but juvenile crime is neither new nor rare.

3. 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.

4. Oscar Lopez:

   Criminal Court Judges are only allowed to make decisions at arraignment, regarding a defendant’s bail and confinement, on the case immediately before them. The legislature provides the guide rails which the judiciary follows. when he came out of jail, he told us that we didn’t help him. I said, ‘Listen up. I did everything to help you,’.

5. 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.

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