Definition of confinement

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

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Prison :: Prison (n.) Specifically, a building for the safe custody or confinement of criminals and others committed by lawful authority..
Release :: Release (n.) The act of letting loose or freeing, or the state of being let loose or freed; liberation or discharge from restraint of any kind, as from confinement or bondage..
Uncloister :: Uncloister (v. t.) To release from a cloister, or from confinement or seclusion; to set free; to liberate..
Enlargement :: Enlargement (n.) A setting at large, or being set at large; release from confinement, servitude, or distress; liberty..
Poundage :: Poundage (n.) Confinement of cattle, or other animals, in a public pound..
Releasement :: Releasement (n.) The act of releasing, as from confinement or obligation..
Retention :: Retention (n.) Place of custody or confinement.
Discharge :: Discharge (v. t.) To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty; as, to discharge a prisoner..
Clausure :: Clausure (n.) The act of shutting up or confining; confinement.
Protrude :: Protrude (v. t.) To thrust out, as through a narrow orifice or from confinement; to cause to come forth..
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.
Limbus :: Limbus (n.) Hence: Any real or imaginary place of restraint or confinement; a prison; as, to put a man in limbo..
Upsitting :: Upsitting (n.) A sitting up of a woman after her confinement, to receive and entertain her friends..
Latitude :: Latitude (n.) Room; space; freedom from confinement or restraint; hence, looseness; laxity; independence..
Unmew :: Unmew (v. t.) To release from confinement or restraint.
Rescue :: Rescue (v. t.) To free or deliver from any confinement, violence, danger, or evil; to liberate from actual restraint; to remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil; as, to rescue a prisoner from the enemy; to rescue seamen from destruction..
Internment :: Internment (n.) Confinement within narrow limits, -- as of foreign troops, to the interior of a country..
Lying-in :: Lying-in (n.) The state attending, and consequent to, childbirth; confinement..
Coarctation :: Coarctation (n.) Confinement to a narrow space.
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