imprisonment / internment the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison) |
false imprisonment (law) confinement without legal authority |
imprisonment putting someone in prison or in jail as lawful punishment |
captivity imprisonment / incarceration / immurement 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" |
life imprisonment a sentence of imprisonment until death |
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