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1. Concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child
   - parturiency, labor [US], labour [Brit, Cdn], lying-in, travail, childbed
    
2. The act of restraining of a person's liberty by confining them
    
3. The state of being confined
   "he was held in confinement"
    
4. The act of keeping something within specified bounds (by force if necessary)
   - restriction

Derived forms: confinements

See also: confine

Type of: birth, birthing, giving birth, parturition, restraint, subjection, subjugation

Part of: gestation, maternity, pregnancy

Encyclopedia: Confinement