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Confinement

/kəˈnfaɪnmənt/
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(noun) The act of confining or the state of being confined.

I was stuck in confinement for thirty days until I decided to pay a bribe.
Dan was released from solitary confinement after spending a month in the dark.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The prisoner was kept in solitary ____ for several ton.

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