Dictionary Entry
confinement
confinement is a 11-letter English word with 6 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion. Face value is 18 in Scrabble and 23 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
11 letters · Scrabble 18 · Words With Friends 23 · 6 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion.
- 2noun
Restraint within doors by sickness, esp. that caused by childbirth; lying-in.
- 3noun
the act of restraining of a person's liberty by confining them
- 4noun
the act of keeping something within specified bounds (by force if necessary)
"the restriction of the infection to a focal area"
Synonyms
- 5noun
the state of being confined
"he was held in confinement"
- 6noun
concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child
"she was in labor for six hours"
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