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confinement

English

  1. 🔊 the act of restraining of a person's liberty by confining them
  2. 🔊 the state of being confined
    “he was held in confinement”
  3. 🔊 the act of keeping something within specified bounds (by force if necessary)
    “the restriction of the infection to a focal area”
  4. 🔊 concluding state of pregnancy
    “she was in labor for six hours”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 encierro confinement, enclosure
  2. 🔊 confinamiento confinement, detention (the act of confining or the state of being confined)

Similar words

restriction parturiency labor labour lying-in travail childbed accouchement beleaguerment besetment birth birth throes birthing blessed event blockade blockading boundary bounds childbearing childbed childbirth circumscription closeness constraint