confinement

confinement
I
(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
n. childbirth, childbed; imprisonment, incarceration, captivity, custody, detention; circumscription, limitation, restriction. See restraint, reproduction.
II
(Roget's IV) n.
1. [The state of being confined]
Syn. restriction, limitation, circumscription, constraint, repression, control, coercion, keeping, safekeeping, custody, quarantine, curb, bounding, bounds, trammels, check, closeness, bonds, detention, imprisonment, incarceration, immuration; see also captivity , chains , imprisonment 1 , jail , restraint 2 .
Ant. freedom*, release, independence.
2. [The period that accompanies childbirth]
Syn. lying-in, accouchement, childbed, delivery, parturition, childbirth, travail, labor, one's time*; see also childbirth , delivery 2 .
III
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.
restriction, shutting in, imprisonment, enclosure, keeping, incarceration, holding, detainment, bounding, quarantine, detention, captivity.
ANT.: freedom, liberation, release
IV
(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun 1. The state of being detained by legal authority: charge, custody, detention, ward. See FREE. 2. The act of limiting or condition of being limited: circumscription, constraint, limitation, restraint, restriction. See LIMITED.

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