solitary confinement

Domain: Universal Words

(also informal solitary) noun [U] a punishment in which a prisoner is kept alone in a separate cell: to be in solitary confinement

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solitary confinementEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary solitary confinementEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus

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