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confinement

/kuhn-fahyn-muhnt/US // kənˈfaɪn mənt //UK // (kənˈfaɪnmənt) //

囚禁,拘禁,监禁,拘束

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of confining.
    • : the state of being confined.
    • : the lying-in of a woman in childbed; accouchement; childbirth.
    • : Military. incarceration in a guardhouse or prison while awaiting trial or as a punishment.

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Examples

  • Sent back to live with her mother and stepdad in their creepy rural manse, Kylie is fed up with her forced confinement from day one.

  • Like a heavily watered-down version of a Buddhist monk taking solitary retreat in a cave, my extended submarine confinements opened something up in my psyche and I gave myself permission to let go of my anxieties.

  • Kevin sounded panicked when he called the professor supervising his case to report that he was being punished with 30 days in solitary confinement.

  • The activists chose this voluntary confinement after being constantly detained by the police while requesting the release of Denis Solís, a rapper who was sentenced to 8 months in prison for the crime of contempt.

  • Bloomberg also reported in July that the US Federal Bureau of Prisons, alone, had put approximately 4,600 people on home confinement since the end of March, which was a 160% increase from pre-covid numbers.

  • Once transferred to Karaj Prison, he spent an additional 15 days in solitary confinement.

  • I was put in a solitary confinement completely cut off from the outside world without even enjoying basic prisoner rights.

  • I have been told that, if I continue with this protest, I will be placed in solitary confinement.

  • Livvix, 30, is now in solitary confinement in the maximum-security Ayalon prison in Ramla, a city near Tel Aviv.

  • The report detailed such techniques as "rectal rehydration" and the use of coffin-size confinement boxes.

  • But it was not necessary for him to enquire how strict, or how apparently long, was to be his confinement.

  • The doctor who had attended his wife during her confinement was indisposed, and was represented only by an affidavit.

  • The three prisoners in question, as well as 11 Franciscan friars, were consequently placed in close confinement.

  • Lady Arabella Seymour escaped from confinement in the tower of London by stratagem.

  • Of others, stowed in boxes when a ship was searched; with a bare chance of surviving their confinement.