confinement

enfermement, détention

État d’une personne retenue dans un lieu, notamment une prison ou une petite pièce, sans pouvoir sortir.

En anglais simple : The state of being kept in a place, especially a prison or small room, without being allowed to leave.

• He spent a month in confinement.
• The prisoner was placed in solitary confinement.
• Long confinement can harm an animal's health.

Comment l'utiliser : confinement to something (Her confinement to one room lasted several weeks.); in confinement (The prisoner spent a year in confinement.)

Synonymes : captivity, detention, imprisonment

Contraires : freedom, release

Expressions courantes : solitary confinement, close confinement, confinement in prison

accouchement, couches

Période où une femme accouche ou se repose autour de la naissance.

En anglais simple : The time when a woman gives birth, or rests around the time of giving birth.

• A midwife attended her confinement.
• Her expected confinement was in early June.
• The letters describe two difficult confinements.

Synonymes : childbirth, delivery

Expressions courantes : during her confinement, expected confinement date, before her confinement