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")
confinement -- (the act of restraining of a person's liberty by confining them)
confinement -- (the state of being confined; "he was held in confinement")
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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