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. 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. Adam Skelter:

   Power's not a chalice. It's a hammer. And it only does one thing. Power smashes. The subtext of all power is extortion. It's always the threat of force, of imprisonment, the threat of death. Always.”

2. Thom Tillis:

   This pastor was in the United States after the coup and after Erdogan was rounding up people all across the country, does anybody really believe that he would have traveled back to a country that he felt like he could have been swept up into that? Samuel Brownback, US Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom, talks to members of the media outside the prison complex Aliaga, Izmir province, western Turkey, where jailed pastor Andrew Craig Brunson appeared on his trial at a court inside the complex (AP) Meanwhile, the year and a half of imprisonment has taken a personal toll on Brunson and his family.

3. Antony Blinken:

   We believe people in every country should be able to express their views without fear of intimidation, imprisonment, violence or any other forms of repression.

4. Dan Birman:

   The whole possibility that the nation can sentence a child to life imprisonment for a crime when they’re kids -- it goes against the Supreme Court, life in prison is a death sentence for many of these kids.

5. Russ Fulcher:

   The barbaric imprisonment and execution of the courageous pro-democracy activists must finally end.