Meaning of IMPRISONMENT

Pronunciation:			im'prizunmunt
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	Definition:		[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:		captivity, immurement, incarceration, internment
	See Also:		confinement, confinement, custody, durance, false imprisonment, internment, life imprisonment, penalisation, penalization, penalty, punishment
Thesaurus Terms
	Related Terms:		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