Hyphenation of confinement

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word confinement? This word can be hyphenated and contains 3 syllables as shown below.

con-fine-ment

Definitions of confinement:

1.	Concluding state of pregnancy From the onset of contractions to the birth of a child She was in labor for six hours
2.	The act of restraining of a person's liberty by confining them
3.	The state of being confined He was held in confinement
4.	The act of keeping something within specified bounds (by force if necessary) The restriction of the infection to a focal area

Synonyms of confinement:

noun	parturiency, labor, labour, lying-in, travail, childbed, parturition, birth, giving birth, birthing
noun	restraint
noun	subjugation, subjection

Last hyphenations of this language

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Hyphenator

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