confinement
noun
[ kənˈfʌɪnmənt ]
• the action of confining or state of being confined.
• "he was immediately released from his confinement"
Similar:
imprisonment,
internment,
incarceration,
custody,
captivity,
detention,
restraint,
arrest,
house arrest,
thraldom,
thrall,
duress,
durance,
penning,
caging,
locking up,
walling in/up,
enclosure,
encirclement,
surrounding,
encompassment,
quarantine,
corralling,
immurement,
• the condition of being in childbirth.
• "the pros and cons of home versus hospital confinement"
Similar:
labour,
(expected) delivery,
giving birth,
birthing,
birth,
childbirth,
nativity,
parturition,
lying-in,
accouchement,
childbed,
travail,
