confinement

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noun

1. concluding state of pregnancy;
from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child (Freq. 1)
- she was in labor for six hours
• Syn:
parturiency, labor, labour, lying-in, travail, childbed
• Derivationally related forms:
labour (for: labour), labor (for: labor), parturient (for: parturiency)
• Hypernyms:
parturition, birth, giving birth, birthing
• Hyponyms:
premature labor, premature labour
• Part Holonyms:
pregnancy, gestation, maternity
• Part Meronyms:
uterine contraction, effacement, asynclitism, obliquity
2. the act of restraining of a person's liberty by confining them (Freq. 1)
• Derivationally related forms:
confine
• Hypernyms:
restraint
• Hyponyms:
imprisonment, internment, house arrest, commitment, committal, consignment
3. the state of being confined
- he was held in confinement
• Derivationally related forms:
confine
• Hypernyms:
subjugation, subjection
• Hyponyms:
constraint, restraint, captivity, imprisonment, incarceration,
incarceration, detention, detainment, hold, custody,
solitary confinement, solitary
4. the act of keeping something within specified bounds (by force if necessary)
- the restriction of the infection to a focal area
• Syn:
restriction
• Derivationally related forms:
restrict (for: restriction)
• Hypernyms:
restraint
• Hyponyms:
classification, stipulation, specification, circumscription, constraint

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  restriction, parturiency, labor, labour, lying-in, travail, childbed