禁足|きんそくkinsoku[0]heiban (flat)

1. noun, suru verb, transitive verbconfinement (indoors, to quarters, etc.)

• Synonym閉じ込めるとじこめるNeutralEveryday word for shutting a person or thing inside so it cannot get out; broader than 「禁足」, which specifically means being forbidden to go out.
• Synonym監禁かんきんWrittenWritten: shutting someone up and depriving them of freedom, typically with a sense of unlawful confinement; a crime-tinged word, far more serious than 「禁足」.
• Synonym拘禁こうきんFormalFormal legal term for holding suspects or convicts in custody in a cell or prison; 「禁足」 simply forbids leaving and need not involve custody.
• Synonym幽閉ゆうへいWrittenShutting someone away in an enclosed space, cut off from the world; often carries a tragic, historical colouring 「禁足」 does not.
• Synonym足止めあしどめNeutralKeeping someone from going out or leaving, which can mean being kept in, and also being stranded by transport trouble; 「禁足」 is specifically a ban on going out.
• Synonym封じ込めるふうじこめるNeutralShutting something in or containing its spread; also used for epidemics and other things that must not get out — a containment sense 「禁足」 lacks.
• Synonym押し込めるおしこめるCasualColloquial: forcibly shutting someone into a room so they cannot leave; emphasizes the physical act of pushing them in, unlike 「禁足」's punishment.
• Related拘束こうそくWrittenWritten/formal: restricting freedom of movement or physically binding someone; often legal or institutional, and broader in scope than 「禁足」.
• Related抑留よくりゅうWrittenFormal prose for holding foreign nationals or ships within one's country; an international-affairs term, unlike 「禁足」's domestic punishment.
• Related収容しゅうようWrittenWritten/formal: taking people into a facility or institution, not necessarily as a punishment; 「禁足」 is about forbidding someone to leave where they are.
• Related禁錮きんこFormalA formal penal term: imprisonment without forced labour, imposed as a criminal sentence; 「禁足」 is a general ban on going out, not a prison term.
• Related束縛そくばくWrittenWritten: restricting freedom of action or of mind, and it can also mean tying with rope; a broad notion of restraint, not specifically a ban on going out like 「禁足」.
• Related縛り付けるしばりつけるCasualColloquial: tying someone or something down with rope; physical restraint of movement, not the punishment of staying indoors that 「禁足」 is.
• Related封じ込むふうじこむNeutralTrapping someone or something inside so it cannot escape; describes the act of confining, not 「禁足」's punishment of forbidding outings.
• Related取りこめるとりこめるWrittenOld-fashioned and rare even in writing: surrounding someone so they cannot leave. In everyday use say 「閉じ込める」 or 「取り囲む」 instead.
• Related留め置くとめおくWrittenWritten: holding a person or thing in place and not letting it leave; detention or retention, not 「禁足」's ban on going out.
• Antonym外出許可がいしゅつきょかFormalFormal permission, e.g. for a hospital patient, to go out temporarily; the direct opposite of 「禁足」, which forbids leaving.

Use 「禁足」 for barring someone from going out, typically as a punishment, as in 「寮での禁足処分」. To shut someone or something in, say 「閉じ込める」; for illegal confinement, 「監禁」; for being stranded by transport trouble, 「足止め」. Of the rest, 「拘束」 and 「束縛」 cover restriction of freedom more broadly, 「抑留」 detains foreign nationals or ships, 「収容」 places people in facilities, 「禁錮」 and 「拘禁」 are legal terms, 「幽閉」 is tragic seclusion, and 「外出許可」 is the opposite.

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1. ある場所ばしょから出でることを許ゆるさず、屋内おくないなどに閉じ込とじこめること。