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confinement 音标拼音: [kənf'ɑɪnmənt]
禁闭 禁闭 confinement n 1: concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child; " she was in labor for six hours" [ synonym: { parturiency}, { labor}, { labour}, { confinement}, { 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); " the restriction of the infection to a focal area" [ synonym: { restriction}, { confinement}] Confinement \ Con* fine" ment\, n. 1. Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion. [ 1913 Webster] The mind hates restraint, and is apt to fancy itself under confinement when the sight is pent up. -- Addison. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Restraint within doors by sickness, esp. that caused by childbirth; lying- in. [ 1913 Webster] 85 Moby Thesaurus words for " confinement": accouchement, beleaguerment, besetment, birth, birth throes, birthing, blessed event, blockade, blockading, boundary, bounds, childbearing, childbed, childbirth, circumscription, closeness, constraint, continence, cordoning, cramp, cramping, crowdedness, delivery, discipline, dismemberment, enclosure, envelopment, estrapade, galleys, genesis, giving birth, hair, hairbreadth, hairsbreadth, hard labor, hatching, having a baby, immurement, impalement, imprisonment, incapaciousness, incarceration, inclusion, incommodiousness, jailing, keelhauling, labor, limit, limitation, martyrdom, moderation, multiparity, narrow gauge, narrowness, nascency, nativity, nearness, parturition, penal servitude, picketing, prescription, proscription, qualification, quarantine, railriding, restrain, restraint, restrictedness, restriction, rock pile, siege, slenderness, stint, straitness, strappado, strictness, tar- and- feathering, the Nativity, the gantlet, the stork, tight squeeze, tightness, torment, torture, travail
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