confinement - Similar and Opposite Words

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Noun

the act of restraining of a person's liberty by confining them

Synonyms

• confinement

More generic

• restraint

More specific

• commitment
• committal
• consignment
• house arrest
• imprisonment
• internment

Noun

the act of keeping something within specified bounds (by force if necessary)

Synonyms

• confinement
• restriction

More generic

• restraint

More specific

• circumscription
• classification
• constraint
• specification
• stipulation

Noun

the state of being confined

Synonyms

• confinement

More generic

• subjection
• subjugation

More specific

• captivity
• constraint
• custody
• detainment
• detention
• hold
• immurement
• imprisonment
• incarceration
• restraint
• solitary
• solitary confinement

Noun

concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child

Synonyms

• childbed
• confinement
• labor
• labour
• lying-in
• parturiency
• travail

More generic

• birth
• birthing
• giving birth
• parturition

More specific

• premature labor
• premature labour

Related

• asynclitism
• effacement
• obliquity
• uterine contraction

Related

• gestation
• maternity
• pregnancy

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