Definition of confinement

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

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Incagement :: Incagement (n.) Confinement in, or as in, cage..
Lying-in :: Lying-in (n.) The state attending, and consequent to, childbirth; confinement..
Clausure :: Clausure (n.) The act of shutting up or confining; confinement.
Uncloister :: Uncloister (v. t.) To release from a cloister, or from confinement or seclusion; to set free; to liberate..
Discharge :: Discharge (v. t.) Legal release from confinement; liberation; as, the discharge of a prisoner..
Limbus :: Limbus (n.) Hence: Any real or imaginary place of restraint or confinement; a prison; as, to put a man in limbo..
Coarctation :: Coarctation (n.) Confinement to a narrow space.
Captive :: Captive (a.) Made prisoner, especially in war; held in bondage or in confinement..
Enlargement :: Enlargement (n.) A setting at large, or being set at large; release from confinement, servitude, or distress; liberty..
Gush :: Gush (v. i.) To issue with violence and rapidity, as a fluid; to rush forth as a fluid from confinement; to flow copiously..
Prison :: Prison (n.) A place where persons are confined, or restrained of personal liberty; hence, a place or state o/ confinement, restraint, or safe custody..
Internment :: Internment (n.) Confinement within narrow limits, -- as of foreign troops, to the interior of a country..
Protrude :: Protrude (v. t.) To thrust out, as through a narrow orifice or from confinement; to cause to come forth..
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..
Custody :: Custody (n.) State of being guarded and watched to prevent escape; restraint of liberty; confinement; imprisonment.
Circumscription :: Circumscription (n.) The act of limiting, or the state of being limited, by conditions or restraints; bound; confinement; limit..
Scurvy :: Scurvy (n.) A disease characterized by livid spots, especially about the thighs and legs, due to extravasation of blood, and by spongy gums, and bleeding from almost all the mucous membranes. It is accompanied by paleness, languor, depression, and general debility. It is occasioned by confinement, innutritious food, and hard labor, but especially by lack of fresh vegetable food, or confinement for a long time to a limited range of food, which is incapable of repairing the waste of the system. It
Unpen :: Unpen (v. t.) To release from a pen or from confinement.
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..
Cage :: Cage (n.) A place of confinement for malefactor.
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