All confinement synonyms
con·fine·ment
C c noun confinement
- detention — Detention is when someone is arrested or put into prison, especially for political reasons.
- incarceration — the act of incarcerating, or putting in prison or another enclosure: The incarceration rate has increased dramatically.
- repression — the act of repressing; state of being repressed.
- jail — a prison, especially one for the detention of persons awaiting trial or convicted of minor offenses.
- custody — Custody is the legal right to keep and look after a child, especially the right given to a child's mother or father when they get divorced.
- internment — an act or instance of interning.
- control — Control of an organization, place, or system is the power to make all the important decisions about the way that it is run.
- keeping — board and lodging; subsistence; support: to work for one's keep.
- safekeeping — the act of keeping safe or the state of being kept safe; protection; care; custody.
- cramp — Cramp is a sudden strong pain caused by a muscle suddenly contracting. You sometimes get cramp in a muscle after you have been making a physical effort over a long period of time.
- constraint — A constraint is something that limits or controls what you can do.
- limitation — a limiting condition; restrictive weakness; lack of capacity; inability or handicap: He knows his limitations as a writer.
- curb — If you curb something, you control it and keep it within limits.
- circumscription — the act of circumscribing or the state of being circumscribed
- coercion — Coercion is the act or process of persuading someone forcefully to do something that they do not want to do.
- check — Check is also a noun.
- bonds — Barry (Lamar). born 1964, US baseball player: holder of records for most home runs in a season (73) and a career (762)
- bounds — a limit; boundary (esp in the phrase know no bounds)
- delimitation — delimit.
- bounding — under a legal or moral obligation: He is bound by the terms of the contract.
- immuration — to enclose within walls.
- imprisonment — to confine in or as if in a prison.
- quarantine — a strict isolation imposed to prevent the spread of disease.
- captivity — Captivity is the state of being kept imprisoned or enclosed.
- gaol — to take into or hold in lawful custody; imprison.
- scope — extent or range of view, outlook, application, operation, effectiveness, etc.: an investigation of wide scope.
- restriction — something that restricts; a restrictive condition or regulation; limitation.
- restraint — a restraining action or influence: freedom from restraint.
- limit — the final, utmost, or furthest boundary or point as to extent, amount, continuance, procedure, etc.: the limit of his experience; the limit of vision.
- boundary — The boundary of an area of land is an imaginary line that separates it from other areas.
verb confinement
- incarcerate — to imprison; confine.
- lock up — a device for securing a door, gate, lid, drawer, or the like in position when closed, consisting of a bolt or system of bolts propelled and withdrawn by a mechanism operated by a key, dial, etc.
- interned — to restrict to or confine within prescribed limits, as prisoners of war, enemy aliens, or combat troops who take refuge in a neutral country.
- take away — something taken back or away, especially an employee benefit that is eliminated or substantially reduced by the terms of a union contract.
- bastille — a fortress in Paris, built in the 14th century: a prison until its destruction in 1789, at the beginning of the French Revolution