physical confinement

Frequency: 6.26.7 per million words

The state of being physically restricted to a place.

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Examples (10)

  • The prisoner endured years of physical confinement in a tiny cell.
  • Due to the contagious disease, patients were placed in strict physical confinement.
  • The psychological effects of long-term physical confinement can be severe.
  • International law prohibits the use of prolonged physical confinement as punishment without trial.
  • Activists protest the physical confinement of large marine animals in small tanks.
  • Escaping from such high-security physical confinement will be nearly impossible.
  • Historically, debtors often faced physical confinement in prisons until their debts were settled.
  • How does one cope with the intense isolation that comes with physical confinement?
  • After years of physical confinement, he found the vast open spaces overwhelming.
  • The court order mandated not just electronic monitoring but complete physical confinement to his home.