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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How to use imprisonment in a sentence?

1. Sophal Ear:

   A culture of dialogue is breaking down and giving way to a culture of threats and impunity, you can see the strategy already ... and what you have is essentially the threat of imprisonment in order to control people better.

2. Justice Michael Code:

   I am satisfied that life imprisonment is the appropriate sentences for both counts one and two.

3. Gleisi Hoffmann:

   We consider this to be a political imprisonment, an imprisonment that will expose Brazil before the world, we will become a banana republic.

4. Martin Luther King, Jr.:

   In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law ... That would lead to anarchy. An individual who breaks a law that his conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.

5. Martin Luther King Jr.:

   I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.