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con·fine·ment 
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| 1. | the act of confining. |
| 2. | the state of being confined. |
| 3. | the lying-in of a woman in childbed; accouchement; childbirth. |
| 4. | Military. incarceration in a guardhouse or prison while awaiting trial or as a punishment (distinguished from arrest). |
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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| 1. | concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours" [syn: parturiency] |
| 2. | the act of restraining of a person's liberty by confining them |
| 3. | the state of being confined; "he was held in confinement" |
| 4. | the act of keeping something within specified bounds (by force if necessary); "the restriction of the infection to a focal area" [syn: restriction] |
| WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University. |
conˈfinement1 noun
state of being shut up or imprisoned
Example: solitary confinement
conˈfinement2 nounExample: solitary confinement
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(the time of) the birth of a child
Example: her third confinement
See also: confined, confine, confinesExample: her third confinement
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| Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary, © 2000-2006 K Dictionaries Ltd. |
Confinement
Con*fine"ment\, n. 1. Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion. The mind hates restraint, and is apt to fancy itself under confinement when the sight is pent up. --Addison. 2. Restraint within doors by sickness, esp. that caused by childbirth; lying-in.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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