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

• perturbing
• Pertusaria
• Pertusariaceae
• pertussis
• Peru
• peruke
• peruked
• perusal
• peruse
• perusing
• Perutz
• Peruvian
• Peruvian balsam
• Peruvian bark
• Peruvian cotton
• Peruvian current
• Peruvian lily
• Peruvian mastic tree
• Peruvian monetary unit
• perv
• pervade
• pervaporate
• pervaporation
• pervasion
• pervasive