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Confinement

Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion.

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Broader term 6

Birth 76% connected

The act or fact of coming into life, or of being born; -- generally applied to human beings; as, the birth of a son.

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Birthing 76% connected

Anything added to raise the sides of a ship.

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Parturition 76% connected

The act of bringing forth, or being delivered of, young; the act of giving birth; delivery; childbirth.

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Restraint 76% connected

The act or process of restraining, or of holding back or hindering from motion or action, in any manner; hindrance of the will, or of any action, phy…

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Subjection 76% connected

The act of subjecting, or of bringing under the dominion of another; the act of subduing.

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Subjugation 76% connected

The act of subjugating, or the state of being subjugated.

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Narrower term 18

Captivity 76% connected

The state of being a captive or a prisoner.

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Circumscription 76% connected

An inscription written around anything.

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Classification 76% connected

The act of forming into a class or classes; a distibution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to some common relations or affi…

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Commitment 76% connected

The act of committing, or putting in charge, keeping, or trust; consignment; esp., the act of committing to prison.

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Committal 76% connected

The act of committing, or the state of being committed; commitment.

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Consignment 76% connected

The act of consigning; consignation.

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Constraint 76% connected

The act of constraining, or the state of being constrained; that which compels to, or restrains from, action; compulsion; restraint; necessity.

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Custody 76% connected

A keeping or guarding; care, watch, inspection, for keeping, preservation, or security.

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Detainment 76% connected

Detention.

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Detention 76% connected

The act of detaining or keeping back; a withholding.

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Hold 76% connected

The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed.

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Immurement 76% connected

The act iif immuring, or the state of being immured; imprsonment.

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Incarceration 76% connected

The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment.

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Internment 76% connected

Confinement within narrow limits, -- as of foreign troops, to the interior of a country.

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Restraint 76% connected

The act or process of restraining, or of holding back or hindering from motion or action, in any manner; hindrance of the will, or of any action, phy…

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Solitary 76% connected

Living or being by one's self; having no companion present; being without associates; single; alone; lonely.

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Specification 76% connected

The act of specifying or determining by a mark or limit; notation of limits.

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Stipulation 76% connected

The act of stipulating; a contracting or bargaining; an agreement.

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Bound 74% connected

of Bind

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Bound 74% connected

of Bind

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Confine 74% connected

To restrain within limits; to restrict; to limit; to bound; to shut up; to inclose; to keep close.

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Confine 74% connected

To restrain within limits; to restrict; to limit; to bound; to shut up; to inclose; to keep close.

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Enclose 74% connected

To inclose. See Inclose.

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Enclose 74% connected

To inclose. See Inclose.

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Labour 74% connected

productive work (especially physical work done for wages); "his labor did not require a great deal of skill"

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Labour 74% connected

productive work (especially physical work done for wages); "his labor did not require a great deal of skill"

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Component part 2

Effacement 70% connected

The act if effacing; also, the result of the act.

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Obliquity 70% connected

The condition of being oblique; deviation from a right line; deviation from parallelism or perpendicularity; the amount of such deviation; divergence…

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Containing whole 3

Gestation 70% connected

The act of wearing (clothes or ornaments).

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Maternity 70% connected

The state of being a mother; the character or relation of a mother.

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Pregnancy 70% connected

The condition of being pregnant; the state of being with young.

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Synonym 7

Childbed 92% connected

The state of a woman bringing forth a child, or being in labor; parturition.

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Labor 92% connected

Physical toil or bodily exertion, especially when fatiguing, irksome, or unavoidable, in distinction from sportive exercise; hard, muscular effort di…

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Labour 92% connected

productive work (especially physical work done for wages); "his labor did not require a great deal of skill"

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Lying-in 92% connected

The state attending, and consequent to, childbirth; confinement.

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Parturiency 92% connected

Parturition.

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Restriction 92% connected

The act of restricting, or state of being restricted; confinement within limits or bounds.

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Travail 92% connected

Labor with pain; severe toil or exertion.

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