confinement

encierro, reclusión

Situación de permanecer encerrado en un lugar, especialmente una prisión o habitación pequeña, sin permiso para salir.

En inglés sencillo: 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.

Cómo se usa: confinement to something (Her confinement to one room lasted several weeks.); in confinement (The prisoner spent a year in confinement.)

Sinónimos: captivity, detention, imprisonment

Antónimos: freedom, release

Expresiones frecuentes: solitary confinement, close confinement, confinement in prison

parto, puerperio

Periodo en que una mujer da a luz o descansa durante los días cercanos al parto.

En inglés sencillo: 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.

Sinónimos: childbirth, delivery

Expresiones frecuentes: during her confinement, expected confinement date, before her confinement