confinement

reclusione, isolamento

Condizione di chi è trattenuto in un luogo, soprattutto una prigione o una piccola stanza, senza poter uscire.

In inglese semplice: 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.

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

Sinonimi: captivity, detention, imprisonment

Contrari: freedom, release

Espressioni comuni: solitary confinement, close confinement, confinement in prison

parto, puerperio

Periodo in cui una donna partorisce o riposa nei giorni vicini al parto.

In inglese semplice: 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.

Sinonimi: childbirth, delivery

Espressioni comuni: during her confinement, expected confinement date, before her confinement