Search Result for "imprisonment":
Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (3)
1. putting someone in prison or in jail as lawful punishment;
2. 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]
3. the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison);
[syn: imprisonment, internment]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
43 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
