confinement
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(noun) restraint of a person's liberty |
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Synonyms: detention |
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Related Words: house arrest, imprisonment, internment, restraint |
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(noun) the state of being confined; "he was held in solitary confinement" |
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Related Words: captivity, constraint, custody, detention, hold, immurement, imprisonment, incarceration, restraint, subjection, subjugation |
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(noun) concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of labor to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours" |
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Synonyms: childbed, labor, labour, lying-in, parturiency, travail |
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Related Words: birth, birthing, giving birth, parturition |
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