"confinements" in the noun sense
1. parturiency, labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed
concluding state of pregnancy from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child
"she was in labor for six hours"
2. confinement
the act of restraining of a person's liberty by confining them
3. confinement
the state of being confined
"he was held in confinement"
4. restriction, confinement
the act of keeping something within specified bounds (by force if necessary
"the restriction of the infection to a focal area"
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