Synonym: childbed, labor, labour, lying-in, parturiency, travail. Similar words: confine, confident, postponement, finite element, confide, confirm, confirmed, confidence. Meaning: [-mənt] n. 1. concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of labor to the birth of a child 2. the act of restraining of a person's liberty by confining them 3. the state of being confined.
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31 From that time she was kept in close confinement and treated with cruelty.
32 And although federally sponsored hospitals for specific diseases are uncommon in the United States, federally sponsored places of confinement are not.
33 The multitudes had come from their camps of long confinement and were wild with excitement.
34 He was sentenced to 5 months of home confinement for the crime.
35 Children and overseas students should be able to learn new words without constant assistance or confinement to a restricted vocabulary.
36 The strong nuclear force has a curious property called confinement: it always binds particles together into combinations that have no color.
37 He was confined to a wheelchair after that, and the confinement contributed to the diminishing of his body and spirit.
38 Xi is in solitary confinement[Sentencedict.com], allowed only monthly visits with his father.
39 This social position is clearly the outcome of women's confinement to the home by domestic and child-care responsibilities.
40 Riina himself was caught the same year and now languishes in solitary confinement.
41 After a brief show trial they were put in solitary confinement in appalling conditions until March this year.
42 Men believed that a person could become accustomed to confinement.
43 I spent the vast majority of my time in solitary confinement.
44 After that I was forbidden the sidewalk without supervision and sentenced to confinement in the backyard with Dons.
45 I read once that nobody can stand more than ten years in prison, or more than one year of solitary confinement.
46 In the next two days everyone in Danu was put under terms of strict confinement.
47 As a result, their efforts were diverted more towards devising non-custodial alternatives than facing up to the intractable problems of institutional confinement.
48 Much of this development has involved sugar-cane cultivation on sloping terrain in contrast to its confinement to flat alluvial areas prior to 1960.
49 This confinement apparently affected his health and, after a short illness, he died suddenly at the museum 28 May 1917.
50 But quite the opposite happened, as the freedom fighters turned their confinement to good use.
51 I doubt if he is a hard enough case to brazen it out for long in confinement.
52 For 18 months in 1982 and 1983, he had been kept permanently handcuffed in solitary confinement.
53 These included speeding up the confinement of government troops and agreeing to an election timetable.
54 Will it be said that animals raised on close confinement systems, for example, do not fare well, all considered?
55 She was sentenced to 15 days' confinement in her cell for violating a direct order.
56 We ate them with cheer in the grace of confinement.
57 Tathir, the ritual purification of the social body, requires the destruction of the first and the confinement of the second.
58 It was the light also of that china-cabinet room in the apartment where he had suffered confinement with Shula-Slawa.
59 Hated it for its bleak isolation and petty preoccupation with the work of fences and confinement.
60 He was held in solitary confinement in the General Intelligence headquarters in Riyadh and was reportedly tortured.
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