Definition of confinement

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Confinement (n.) Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion.

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Coarctation :: Coarctation (n.) Confinement to a narrow space.
Unpen :: Unpen (v. t.) To release from a pen or from confinement.
Unmew :: Unmew (v. t.) To release from confinement or restraint.
Prison :: Prison (n.) Specifically, a building for the safe custody or confinement of criminals and others committed by lawful authority..
Bedlam :: Bedlam (n.) A place appropriated to the confinement and care of the insane; a madhouse.
Imprison Ment :: Imprison ment (n.) The act of imprisoning, or the state of being imprisoned; confinement; restraint..
Confinement :: Confinement (n.) Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion.
Discharge :: Discharge (v. t.) To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty; as, to discharge a prisoner..
Circumscription :: Circumscription (n.) The act of limiting, or the state of being limited, by conditions or restraints; bound; confinement; limit..
Custody :: Custody (n.) State of being guarded and watched to prevent escape; restraint of liberty; confinement; imprisonment.
Incagement :: Incagement (n.) Confinement in, or as in, cage..
Weary :: Weary (superl.) Having one's patience, relish, or contentment exhausted; tired; sick; -- with of before the cause; as, weary of marching, or of confinement; weary of study..
Limbus :: Limbus (n.) Hence: Any real or imaginary place of restraint or confinement; a prison; as, to put a man in limbo..
Forth :: Forth (adv.) Out, as from a state of concealment, retirement, confinement, nondevelopment, or the like; out into notice or view; as, the plants in spring put forth leaves..
Clausure :: Clausure (n.) The act of shutting up or confining; confinement.
Out :: Out (a.) Beyond the limits of concealment, confinement, privacy, constraint, etc., actual of figurative; hence, not in concealment, constraint, etc., in, or into, a state of freedom, openness, disclosure, publicity, etc.; as, the sun shines out; he laughed out, to be out at the elbows; the secret has leaked out, or is out; the disease broke out on his face; the book is out..
Captive :: Captive (a.) Made prisoner, especially in war; held in bondage or in confinement..
Mew :: Mew (n.) A cage for hawks while mewing; a coop for fattening fowls; hence, any inclosure; a place of confinement or shelter; -- in the latter sense usually in the plural..
Jail :: "Jail (n.) A kind of prison; a building for the confinement of persons held in lawful custody, especially for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding..
Protrude :: Protrude (v. t.) To thrust out, as through a narrow orifice or from confinement; to cause to come forth..
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