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confinement

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Main Entry: confinement
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: imprisonment; restriction

Synonyms:

bonds, bounding, bounds, check, circumscription, coercion, constrainment, constraint, control, cramp, curb, custody, delimitation, detention, immuration, incarceration, internment, jail, keeping, limitation, repression, safekeeping, trammels

Antonyms:

freedom, liberation
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Main Entry: confinement
Part of Speech: noun
Related
Adjectives:
begirt, buried in, cabined, circumscribed, coactive, cohibitive, constrained, determinate, embedded, embosomed, encysted, enwreathing, fenced, hapteric, hedged in, hidebound, ice, immuring, imprisoned, in a ring fence, in custody, in lob's pound, in swaddling, jammed in, laid by the heels, landlocked, lapt, mewed up, nidulant, obvallate, on parole, put up, restrained, restringent, stiff, strait, under lock and key, under restraint, weather, wind
Main Entry: arrest
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: taking into custody

Synonyms:

accommodation, apprehension, appropriation, bag*, booby trap, bust, captivity, capture, collar, commitment, confinement, constraint, crimp, detention, drop*, fall*, gaff, glom, grab*, heat*, hook*, imprisonment, incarceration, jailing, mitt, nab, nail, nick, nip, pick up*, pickle, pinch*, preventive custody, protective custody, pull in, pull*, restraining, run in, sequestering, snare, sweep*
Main Entry: captivity
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: physical detention by force

Synonyms:

bondage, committal, confinement, constraint, custody, durance, duress, enslavement, enthrallment, entombment, impoundment, imprisonment, incarceration, internment, jail, limbo, restraint, serfdom, servitude, slavery, subjection, thralldom, vassalage

Antonyms:

freedom, independence, liberty, license
Main Entry: childbirth
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: giving birth

Synonyms:

accouchement, bearing children, blessed event, childbed, confinement, delivering, delivery, labor, lying-in, nativity, parturience, parturition, procreation, producing, propagation, reproduction, travail, visit from the stork
Main Entry: constraint
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: restriction

Synonyms:

arrest, captivity, check, circumscription, confinement, constrainment, cramp, curb, damper, detention, deterrent, hindrance, limitation, restraint

Antonyms:

allowance, permission
Main Entry: contraction
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: drawing in; shortening

Synonyms:

abbreviating, abbreviation, abridging, abridgment, compression, condensation, condensing, confinement, confining, constriction, curtailing, curtailment, cutting down, decrease, decreasing, deflating, deflation, diminishing, diminution, drawing together, dwindling, elision, evaporating, evaporation, lessening, lopping, narrowing, omission, omitting, receding, recession, reducing, reduction, shrinkage, shrinking, shrivelling, tensing, tightening, withdrawal, withdrawing

Antonyms:

amplification, dilation, enlargement, expansion, extension, increase, lengthening, spread, stretch
Main Entry: cramp
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: muscle spasm

Synonyms:

ache, charley horse, circumscription, confinement, constipation, contraction, convulsion, crick, hindrance, impediment, kink, obstruction, pain, pang, restriction, shooting pain, stiffness, stitch, stricture, twinge
Main Entry: delivery
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: childbirth

Synonyms:

Caesarian section, accouchement, bearing, birth, birthing, bringing forth, childbearing, confinement, geniture, labor, lying-in, parturition, travail
Main Entry: duress
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: threat, hardship

Synonyms:

bondage, captivity, coercion, compulsion, confinement, constraint, control, detention, discipline, force, imprisonment, incarceration, pressure, restraint, violence
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