| 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 |
| Main Entry: | definition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | description |
Synonyms: |
analogue, annotation, answer, characterization, clarification, clue, comment, commentary, cue, delimitation, delineation, demarcation, denotation, determination, diagnosis, drift, elucidation, exemplification, explanation, explication, exposition, expounding, fixing, formalization, gloss, individuation, interpretation, key, outlining, rationale, rendering, rendition, representation, settling, signification, solution, statement of meaning, terminology, translation |
Antonyms: |
ambiguity, nonsense, vagueness |
| Main Entry: | demarcation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | boundary, division |
Synonyms: |
bound, confine, delimitation, differentiation, distinction, enclosure, limit, margin, separation, split, terminus |
| Main Entry: | confinement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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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
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