Confinement

/kənˈfaɪnmənt/

Synonyms for "confinement" (149 found)

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Closest matches (30)

Noun(10 words)

restriction cage caging captivities captivity childbed cloistering committal committals confining

accouchement beleaguerment besetment birthbirth throesbirthingblessed eventblockade blockading boundary bounds captivity chain check childbearing childbed childbirth circumscription closeness constraint

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Noun(16 words)

constraint containment detainment detention durance enclosure fettering hemming immobilizings immuring imprisoning imprisonment imprisonments incarcerating incarceration incarcerations

continence cordoning cramp cramping crowdedness custody delivery discipline dismemberment duress enclosure envelopment estrapade galleys gantlet gauntlet genesisgiving birthhair hairbreadth

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hairsbreadthhard laborhatchinghaving a babyimmurement impalement imprisonment incapaciousness incarceration

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Noun(24 words)

inclosure internement interning internment isolationitalian isolarejugging kenneling labor labourleast communal environmentlimitation lying-in manacling mewingmore isolatedmost securely groundednunneries parturiency pen

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penning quarantining sequestering travail

inclusion incommodiousness jailing keelhauling labor limit limitation lockup martyrdom moderation multiparitynarrow gaugenarrowness nascency nativity nearness parturitionpenal servitudepicketing prescription

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prison proscription qualification quarantine rack railriding restrain restraint restrictedness restrictionrock pilesiege slenderness solitude stint stork straitness strappado strictnesstar-and-featheringthe gantletthe nativitythe storktight squeezetightness torment torture travail

Determiner(1 words)

more grounding

Adjective(1 words)

short-term immobility

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More general

15 entries

birth birthing containment control enclosuregiving birthlimitation parturitionpenal measurepunishment restraint restriction space subjection subjugation

More specific

10 entries

cage cell detentionhouse confinementhutch isolationjail termkennel pen prison

Collocations

5 entries

animal confinementconfinement facilityhome confinementperiod of confinementsolitary confinement

Inflections

1 entries

confinements

Derivations

3 entries

confine confined confining

Sample sentences

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I was stuck in confinement for thirty days until I decided to pay a bribe.

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Dan was released from solitary confinement after spending a month in the dark.

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The warden sent Dan back to solitary confinement.

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Confinement can drive you insane.

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