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confinement

NounSuru VerbTransitive Verb

Definitions

1. confinement
2. imprisonment

This word means confinement or imprisonment, specifically being locked away in a place and not allowed to leave. It often appears in historical or literary contexts to describe someone being held captive, such as a political prisoner or a noble under house arrest.

Example sentences

Sentence 1

Are you actually planning to keep me locked up here?

Sentence 2

Okay, seriously though — is someone actually being held in confinement?

Sentence 3

The old document read, "The king confined his brother to the tower."

Sentence 4

That movie had a plotline where the main character gets confined in a mansion, right?

Sentence 5

In the evening, my boss joked, "You're confined to the document room today."