Confinement

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  • noun. The act of confining or the state of being confined.
  • noun. Lying-in.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The state of being confined; restraint within limits; any restraint of liberty by force or other obstacle or necessity; hence, imprisonment.
  • noun. Restraint from going abroad by sickness, specifically by childbirth; the lying-in of a woman: as, her approaching confinement.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion.
  • noun. Restraint within doors by sickness, esp. that caused by childbirth; lying-in.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. the act of confining or the state of being confined
  • noun. lying-in
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the act of keeping something within specified bounds (by force if necessary)
  • noun. concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child
  • noun. the act of restraining of a person's liberty by confining them
  • noun. the state of being confined
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