'imprisonment' definitions:
Definition of 'imprisonment'
From: WordNet
noun
Putting someone in prison or in jail as lawful punishment
noun
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" [syn: captivity, imprisonment, incarceration, immurement]
noun
The act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison) [syn: imprisonment, internment]
Synonyms of 'imprisonment'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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