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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. the state of being imprisoned;
- Example: "he was held in captivity until he died"
- Example: "the imprisonment of captured soldiers"
- Example: "his ignominious incarceration in the local jail"
- Example: "he practiced the immurement of his enemies in the castle dungeon"
[syn: captivity, imprisonment, incarceration, immurement]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Immurement \Im*mure"ment\, n.
   The act of immuring, or the state of being immured;
   imprisonment.
   [1913 Webster]