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1. confinement
 2. restriction
3. detention
4. imprisonment
5. stagnation
6. corrective
7. astriction
8. clampdown
9. straitjacketing
10. subduing
 11. confiner
12. conqueringly
13. constraint
14. enduement
15. rationing
16. restrict
17. restrictor
18. constrainer
19. inclusion
20. r
 21. restrainer
22. restraining
23. restrainingly
24. restraint
25. restricting
26. arrestation
27. arrestive
28. assessingly
29. confines
30. cost-cutting
 31. curtailment
32. detaining
33. grounding
34. restrainment
35. sequestered
36. constraining
37. embargo

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