Synonyms for confinement
kənˈfaɪn məntcon·fine·ment

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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

Matched Categories

1. • Parturition
   • Restraint
   • Subjugation

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1. confinementnoun

   Synonyms:
   restraint

2. confinementnoun

   Synonyms:
   imprisonment, incarceration, captivity, duress, durance

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1. confinementnoun

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

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1. List of paraphrases for "confinement":

   containment, isolation, childbirth, internment, detention, confining, imprisonment, lockdown, incommunicado, reclusion, insulation, incarceration, birth, placement, custody, delivery, hospitalization, seclusion

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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. Bruce Lee:

   Not being tense but ready. Not thinking but not dreaming. Not being set but flexible. Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement. It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.

3. Daniela Tejada:

   We have asked for clemency, we will wait to see what happens, matt was held in an undisclosed location in solitary confinement for over five months, with no charge, no lawyer and very limited consular access.

4. Christen Kuikoua:

   It is challenging to extend forgiveness to someone you struggle to genuinely love, yet refusing to forgive them becomes an act of unlove, chaining yourself to a form of captivity. It is another way of embracing confinement.

5. 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.