Synonyms for imprisonment
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1. imprisonment

   Bonds may be of cord, leather, or any other substance that can bind; chains are of linked metal. Manacles and handcuffs are for the hands, fetters are primarily chains or jointed iron fastenings for the feet; gyves may be for either. A shackle is a metallic ring, clasp, or bracelet-like fastening for encircling and restraining a limb: commonly one of a pair, used either for hands or feet. Bonds, fetters, and chains are used in a general way for almost any form of restraint. Gyves is now wholly poetic, and the other words are mostly restricted to the literary style; handcuffs is the specific and irons the general term in popular usage; as, the prisoner was put in irons. Bonds, chains, and shackles are frequently used in the metaphorical sense.

   Synonyms:
   bondage, bonds, chains, custody, durance, duress, fetter, gyves, handcuffs, irons, manacles, shackles

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1. imprisonment

   Synonyms:
   restraint, incarceration, durance, confinement

   Antonyms:
   freedom, liberation

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1. imprisonmentnoun

   putting someone in prison or in jail as lawful punishment

   Synonyms:
   incarceration, captivity, immurement, internment

2. captivity, imprisonment, incarceration, immurementnoun

   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:
   incarceration, internment, captivity, immurement, enslavement

3. imprisonment, internmentnoun

   the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison)

   Synonyms:
   internment, poundage, captivity, impounding, immurement, impoundment, incarceration

Matched Categories

1. • Confinement
   • Law
   • Punishment

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1. glomnoun

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1. imprisonmentnoun

   Synonyms:
   incarceration, confinement, commitment, restraint, constraint, duress, durance

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1. imprisonmentnoun

   Synonyms:
   incarceration, durance, immurement, duress, confinement, commitment

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1. List of paraphrases for "imprisonment":

   prison, incarceration, jail, detention, confinement, reclusion, jailing, custody, imprisoned, custodial, arrest, gaol, sentence, perpetua

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1. Sam Rainsy:

   Substantially all of Cambodia’s media is now government controlled, it also occurs in the context of [the] ongoing wrongful imprisonment of opposition supporters and routine intimidation of those who continue to operate.

2. George Brandis:

   I make no apology for the government taking the view that if a person, having served a sentence of imprisonment for a serious crime, shows every indication of a willingness to repeat that crime, to reoffend as soon as they are released, they should remain behind bars.

3. Sandra Babcock:

   Sandra Babcock said. Mrs. Montgomerys case presents compelling grounds for clemency, including her history as a victim of gang rape, incestand child sex trafficking, as well as her severe mental illness, she will now have the opportunity to present this evidence to the President with a request that he commute her sentence to life imprisonment.

4. Annalena Baerbock:

   The Minsk regime is fighting civil society with violence and imprisonment.

5. Xavier Becerra:

   Our laws in California do not convict women who suffer the loss of their pregnancy, and in our filing today we are making clear that this law has been misused to the detriment of women, children, and families, we will work to end the prosecution and imprisonment of Ms. Becker so we can focus on applying this law to those who put the lives of pregnant women in danger.