confinementnoun
uk/kənˈfaɪn.mənt/us/kənˈfaɪn.mənt/[ U ] the situation in which a person or animal is kept somewhere, usually by force:
She spent most of those years under house arrest or close confinement.
[ C or U ] old-fashioned or formal labour noun (= the process of giving birth to a baby)
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Putting people in prison
- at His/Her Majesty's pleasure idiom
- bang
- bang sb up
- bar
- behind bars idiom
- bird
- hold
- immured
- imprison
- incarcerate
- internment
- jail
- lock
- pen
- remand
- restraint
- rot
- rot in jail, prison, etc. idiom
- send
- serve
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