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CONFINEMENT

[noun]

1. the act of confining; to enclose within bounds; limit or restrict; to shut or keep in; prevent from leaving a place because of imprisonment, illness, discipline, etc.

2. the state of being confined.

3. the lying-in of a woman in childbed; accouchement; childbirth.

4. Military: incarceration in a guardhouse or prison while awaiting trial or as a punishment ( distinguished from arrest).