About The Word Imprisonment

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Imprisonment

Imprisonment Meaning & Definition
Imprisonment Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Imprisonment?

[n] the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison)
[n] putting someone in prison or in jail as lawful punishment
[n] the state of being imprisoned; "he was held in captivity until he died"; "the imprisonment of captured soldiers"; "his ignominious incarceration in the local jail"; "he practiced the immurement of his enemies in the castle dungeon"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Imprisonment: captivity | immurement | incarceration | internment

Related Terms | Find terms related to Imprisonment: beleaguerment | besetment | blockade | blockading | captivity | circumscription | close arrest | confinement | cordoning | custody | detention | dismemberment | durance | durance vile | duress | enclosure | envelopment | estrapade | galleys | hard labor | house arrest | immuration | immurement | impalement | incarceration | inclusion | internment | jailing | keelhauling | martyrdom | penal servitude | picketing | quarantine | railriding | remand | rock pile | siege | strappado | tar-and-feathering | term of imprisonment | the gantlet | torment | torture

See Also | confinement | confinement | custody | durance | false imprisonment | internment | life imprisonment | penalisation | penalization | penalty | punishment

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