confinement

confinement (countable and uncountable, plural confinements)

The act of confining or the state of being confined.
- 2025 June 13, Rosa Flores, “Missing Navy sailor found dead in Virginia, another sailor in custody”, in CNN‎:
  “A Navy Sailor has been placed in pretrial confinement in connection with the death of Seaman Resendiz. Charges under the Uniform Code of Military Justice are pending,” NCIS told CNN in a statement Thursday.
(dated) Lying-in, time of giving birth.
Synonyms: labour, birthing
- 1887, The Popular Science Monthly, volume 31, page 629:
  In confinement ladies are attended, not by the ordinary doctors, but by women especially devoted to the calling, who regard their profession as honorable and humanitary.
- 1913, D. H. Lawrence, chapter 1, in Sons and Lovers:
  At the wakes time Morel was working badly, and Mrs. Morel was trying to save against her confinement.
lockdown

state of being confined

Bulgarian: ограничение (bg) n (ograničenie)
Catalan: confinament (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 監禁 / 监禁 (zh) (jiānjìn)
Czech: zajetí (cs) n
French: confinement (fr) m
Galician: confinamento (gl) m
Greek: φυλάκιση (el) f (fylákisi)
Italian: confinamento m
Japanese: 監禁 (ja)
Korean: 갇힘 n (gachim), 얽매임 n (eongmaeim), 속박 (ko) n (sokbak), 구금 (ko) (gugeum), 감금 (ko) (gamgeum)
Latin: inclūsiō f
Macedonian: ограничу́вање n (ograničúvanje), затво́рање n (zatvóranje), заклучу́вање n (zaklučúvanje)
Malay: pengurungan
Maori: mauheretanga (As a prisoner), hamarurutanga
Marathi: बंदिवास (bandīvāsa)
Occitan: confinament (oc) m
Portuguese: confinamento (pt) m
Russian: заключе́ние (ru) n (zaključénije), заточение (ru) n (zatočenije), ограниче́ние (ru) n (ograničénije)
Spanish: confinamiento (es) m
Tocharian B: prutkālñe
Ukrainian: ув'язнення (uvʺjaznennja)

lying-in

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