Definition for Confinement:

• concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of labor to the birth of a child; " she was in labor for six hours"

Synonyms for Confinement:

• n.

  •
  • childbirth,
  • parturition,
  • accouchement,
  • life.
  •
  • free,
  • charge,
  • ward.
  •
  • limited.
  •
  • custody.
  •act (noun)
  • confinement.
  •arrest (noun)
  • gloms,
  • preventive custodies,
  • sequesterings,
  • pick ups,
  • re straining,
  • protective custodies,
  • pull ins,
  • re-straining,
  • restrainings.
  •captivity (noun)
  • subjections,
  • vassalages.
  •childbed (noun)
  • childbed.
  •childbirth (noun)
  • travail,
  • nativities,
  • travails,
  • nativity,
  • bearing children,
  • parturience,
  • visit from stork,
  • visit from the stork.
  •circumscription (noun)
  • curbings.
  •confinement (noun)
  • labour,
  • parturiency,
  • labor,
  • lying-in.
  •constraint (noun)
  • constrainments.
  •contraction (noun)
  • drawing together,
  • lessening,
  • deflations,
  • deflation,
  • shrinking,
  • decreasings,
  • elision,
  • tensing,
  • elisions,
  • reducing.
  •cramp (noun)
  • charley horses,
  • charley horse,
  • shooting pains.
  •custody (noun)
  • retention.
  •delivery (noun)
  • de liveries,
  • caesarian sections,
  • genitures,
  • de livery,
  • de-livery,
  • bringing forths,
  • de-liveries.
  •enclosure (noun)
  • barrier,
  • cell,
  • trap,
  • cage,
  • fence,
  • enclosure,
  • envelopment,
  • jail,
  • pen.
  •illness (noun)
  • in disposition,
  • in-dispositions,
  • what going arounds,
  • re-lapses,
  • whats going around,
  • dis order,
  • re lapses,
  • un-healths,
  • what going around,
  • in dispositions,
  • in-disposition,
  • dis-orders,
  • dis orders,
  • un healths,
  • poor healths,
  • un health,
  • re lapse,
  • what's going arounds,
  • whats going arounds,
  • failing healths,
  • diseasednesses,
  • un-health,
  • re-lapse,
  • unhealths,
  • ill healths,
  • dis-order,
  • ailings,
  • flus.
  •pressure (noun)
  • dis-tresses,
  • mis fortune,
  • un naturalnesses,
  • full court presses,
  • dis tress,
  • un-naturalness,
  • un-naturalnesses,
  • un naturalness,
  • dis tresses,
  • mis fortunes,
  • dis-tress,
  • mis-fortunes.
  •prison (noun)
  • penitentiary,
  • lockup,
  • slammer,
  • bastille,
  • GS,
  • slammers,
  • guardhouses,
  • guardhouse,
  • Statesville,
  • bastilles,
  • up the river.
  •punishment (noun)
  • discipline,
  • penalty,
  • forfeiture,
  • correction,
  • affliction,
  • revenge,
  • retribution,
  • anguish,
  • execution,
  • crucifixion,
  • persecution,
  • verdict,
  • reprisal,
  • sentence,
  • fine,
  • burden,
  • castigation,
  • payment,
  • agony,
  • torture,
  • punishment,
  • distress,
  • chastisement,
  • judgment,
  • price.
  •restraint (noun)
  • control,
  • stricture,
  • leash,
  • constriction,
  • bondage,
  • blockage,
  • restriction,
  • impediment,
  • bridle,
  • shackle,
  • detention,
  • hindrance,
  • inhibition,
  • collar,
  • tether,
  • restraint.
  •restriction (noun)
  • no no's,
  • nono,
  • re-striction,
  • no nos,
  • ball chain,
  • re-strictions,
  • small difficulties,
  • re strictions,
  • excess baggages,
  • nono's,
  • grain salt,
  • re striction.
  •retention (noun)
  • with holdings,
  • with holding,
  • with-holdings.
  •seclusion (noun)
  • elimination,
  • aloneness,
  • xenophobia,
  • deportation,
  • aloofness,
  • loneliness,
  • seclusion,
  • eradication,
  • extradition,
  • misanthropy,
  • isolation,
  • rejection,
  • excommunication,
  • alienation,
  • disbarment,
  • segregation,
  • banishment,
  • expatriation,
  • anonymity,
  • separation,
  • extirpation,
  • ejection,
  • standoffishness,
  • apartheid,
  • exclusion,
  • ostracism,
  • detachment,
  • exile,
  • removal.
  •servitude (noun)
  • peonages,
  • serfhoods.
  •solitude (noun)
  • lonenesses,
  • de-sert,
  • lonesomenesses,
  • peace and quiets,
  • peace quiets,
  • de sert,
  • peace quiet.
  •unsoundness (noun)
  • un-soundness,
  • un soundnesses,
  • un soundness,
  • un-soundnesses.
  •unsubstantiality (noun)
  • unsubstantiality.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • life imprisonment,
  • correctional,
  • hard labor,
  • solitary confinement,
  • extraordinary rendition,
  • chains,
  • life sentence.
  •
  • delivery,
  • transportation,
  • commitment,
  • rendition.
  •
  • solitary.
  •confinement
  • limbo.

Paraphrases for Confinement:

• Reverse Entailment

  • Proper noun, singular
    internment.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    internment, Detainment.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    Strata, Reclusion, cantonment, maternity, parturition, commitment, quarantine, apartheid, isolationism, separation, Sequestering.
  • Verb, past participle
    Deposited.

• Other Related

  • Proper noun, singular
    prisoners, containment, detention, imprisonment, custody.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    seclusion, incommunicado, confining, containment, childbirth, Institutionalization, detention, imprisonment, sequestration, banishment, hospitalization, arrest, captivity, hospitalisation, birth, isolating, delivery, abduction, birthing, jailing, pregnancy, kidnapping, cell, deprivation, punishment, sentence, custody, limitations.

Antonyms for Confinement:

• n.

  • imprisonment; restriction
    permission, allowance, liberty, liberation, freedom.
  • Other antonyms:
    release, emancipation, redemption, manumission, independence.

Confinement Sentence Examples:

• But I began to tire so of such constant confinement to my room that they promised to take me to town as soon as I was well enough, and perhaps to the Opera.

• She had been placed in closer confinement, her health gave way, and by a rapid decline she had gained her freedom.

Hypernym for Confinement:

• n.

  • act
    consignment, house arrest, commitment, committal, internment, imprisonment.
  • state
    detention, immurement, solitary, hold, captivity, solitary confinement, Detainment, restraint, constraint, imprisonment, custody, incarceration.

Hyponym for Confinement:

• n.

  • act
    restraint.
  • state
    subjection, subjugation.