Definition of confinement

Scrabble & Words with friends points

• confinement is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 18
• confinement is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 18
• confinement is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 23

Definition of confinement

• the act of keeping something within specified bounds (by force if necessary) (noun)

  Synonyms

  1. restriction
• concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child (noun)

  Synonyms

  1. childbed
  2. labor
  3. labour
  4. lying-in
  5. parturiency
  6. travail
• the act of restraining of a person's liberty by confining them (noun)
• the state of being confined (noun)

  Examples

  1. he was held in confinement

See definition of confinement in Merriam Webster