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UK
/kənfˈaɪnmənt/
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[ US /kənˈfaɪnmənt/ ]
[ US /kənˈfaɪnmənt/ ]
NOUN
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concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child
she was in labor for six hours - the act of restraining of a person's liberty by confining them
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the act of keeping something within specified bounds (by force if necessary)
the restriction of the infection to a focal area -
the state of being confined
he was held in confinement
How To Use confinement In A Sentence
- Neither do I think moraines of this kind would be formed by a glacier emerging from a steep narrow canyon and running out on a level plain; for in such cases, as soon as the confinement of the bounding walls is removed, the ice stream spreads out into an _ice lake_. The Lake of the Sky Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras of California and Nevada, its History, Indians, Discovery by Frémont, Legendary Lore, Various Namings, Physical Characteristics, Glacial Phenomena, Geology, Single Outlet, Automobile Routes, Historic Town
- Around 6,000 were jailed for their beliefs, some spending months in solitary confinement. The Sun
- The mean selfish life builds its own prison walls and passes sentence of solitary confinement. 23 Steps to Successful Achievement
- New stellarators beat the confinement problem by creating a quasi-symmetric field - trading fiendishly complex magnetic fields for fiendishly complex magnets.
- He served a year in prison - including eight months in solitary confinement.
- he was held in confinement
- On 7 September, resisting confinement in the post guardhouse, he received a fatal wound from a soldier's bayonet.
- The arch - criminal was kept solitary confinement.
- Application for maternity benefits must be made at least eight weeks before confinement, or within six months of the birth of the child.
- In the opening portion of the dance, Tuson and Olson dramatize a legend in which the wind is freed from its confinement by a bear.