confinement
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5.9
- noun
- /kənˈfaɪnmənt/
- Ordinarily you would be kept in solitary confinement for an indefinite period.
- solitary confinement
- conditions of confinement
- effects of confinement
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Watch on YouTubeAnd on top of all of this, we've overlaid lengthy periods of penal confinement.
- And on top of all of this, we've overlaid lengthy periods of penal confinement.
- His photographs are worlds apart from the brick, the mortar and the metal of confinement.
- And Hitchcock has said ever since then I have gone to any length to avoid arrest and to avoid confinement in confining spaces.
- And then really what they got him on the reasoning behind holding him in pretrial confinement was they were so they couldn't prove he was a risk to himself.
- These patterns are entrenched and we see very, very little change under this much stress, this much disappointment, this much confinement.
- But also could put very strict release conditions on him, home detention, home confinement, A curfew, travel limitations, wearing a monitoring device.
- When I was in solitary, solitary confinement is torture.
- And he told about my son being raped in solitary confinement by another young person.
- I said what you're doing with Tommy is you're you've, you've sort of put him in solitary confinement for his views and all that sort of stuff.
- OK, people ask me what is the best thing about having been in solitary confinement in the Islamic in the Islamic Republic of Iran?
- And I sat there in amazement that I could finally see the moon after so many years in solitary confinement.
- It's a perverse form of solitary confinement to be in a room where there is another person who does not acknowledge you.
- Like even if someone in solitary confinement, shout out to Ross Ulbricht, can still write letters to people, receive information, you know, read a book or something.
- Like even if someone in solitary confinement, shout out to Ross Albrecht, can still write letters to people, receive information, you know, read a book or something.
Examples
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In addition, they were subjected to searches and a period of solitary confinement before leaving the compound.
Academic text (1998) -
Writing to the attorney general, he complains about his confinement in the psychiatric clinic in Oslo:
Academic text (1999) -
But if she broke her confinement and was caught, she'd really be in trouble.
Fiction book (2001) -
And I was going from, you know, imprisonment and all of that situation to confinement because of COVID.
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Solitary confinement for the next ten years?
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As far as we were concerned, we'd spent six months in confinement, and there were twelve to go.
Fiction book (2001) -
We put people into solitary confinement with no human contact other than the prison guards for decades.
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Additionally, the oppressive conditions of confinement in an adult jail may exacerbate or create mental health disorders.
Academic text (2013) -
Second, the experience of being detained might change offender perceptions of the disutility of confinement.
Academic text (2017) -
During her house arrest, she experienced extreme confinement and isolation from her friends.
Synonyms
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3.9
Being held by the police after an arrest
155
3.9
A situation in which someone is kept and not allowed to leave, often by police until a decision is made
102
3.7
A state of being kept somewhere and not allowed to leave
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4.0
Being kept in prison as a punishment by law
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8.0
Being kept in prison as punishment
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4.7
Something used to hold a person or animal still
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8.6
Confinement of people in camps during war, often without a trial
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6.7
Being held by police or officials for a short time
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9.9
Shutting someone inside walls so they cannot leave
A time when someone is kept as a prisoner and not free
Antonyms
Compounds
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7.0
Guards keep a prisoner alone and away from other prisoners as punishment or for safety
How Confined
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Morphology
Etymology
Confinement comes from the Latin parts con- 'together' and finis 'end' or 'boundary', and it shares the same root as final and finish, so it originally meant being kept within a limit. So confinement today means being kept in a small space or having your freedom limited.