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

1. noun. Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion.
2. noun. Restraint within doors by sickness, esp. that caused by childbirth; lying-in.
3. noun. the act of restraining of a person's liberty by confining them
4. noun. the act of keeping something within specified bounds (by force if necessary)

   "the restriction of the infection to a focal area"

   Synonyms: restriction

5. noun. the state of being confined

   "he was held in confinement"

6. noun. concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child

   "she was in labor for six hours"

   Synonyms: childbed, labor, labour, parturiency, travail

Synonyms

restriction, childbed, labor, labour, parturiency, travail

Common word forms

confinements

Words from these letters

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