Definition of confinement

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

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Gaol :: Gaol (n.) A place of confinement, especially for minor offenses or provisional imprisonment; a jail..
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..
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..
Decumbiture :: Decumbiture (n.) Confinement to a sick bed, or time of taking to one's bed from sickness..
Discharge :: Discharge (v. t.) Legal release from confinement; liberation; as, the discharge of a prisoner..
Bedlam :: Bedlam (n.) A place appropriated to the confinement and care of the insane; a madhouse.
Restriction :: Restriction (n.) The act of restricting, or state of being restricted; confinement within limits or bounds..
Unmew :: Unmew (v. t.) To release from confinement or restraint.
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..
Hold :: Hold (n.) A place of confinement; a prison; confinement; custody; guard.
Captive :: Captive (a.) Of or pertaining to bondage or confinement; serving to confine; as, captive chains; captive hours..
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..
Clausure :: Clausure (n.) The act of shutting up or confining; confinement.
Release :: Release (n.) To let loose again; to set free from restraint, confinement, or servitude; to give liberty to, or to set at liberty; to let go..
Discharge :: Discharge (v. t.) To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty; as, to discharge a prisoner..
Protrude :: Protrude (v. t.) To thrust out, as through a narrow orifice or from confinement; to cause to come forth..
Coarctation :: Coarctation (n.) Confinement to a narrow space.
Circumscription :: Circumscription (n.) The act of limiting, or the state of being limited, by conditions or restraints; bound; confinement; limit..
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..
Releasement :: Releasement (n.) The act of releasing, as from confinement or obligation..
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