All imprisonment synonyms

noun imprisonment

• isolation — an act or instance of isolating.
• confinement — Confinement is the state of being forced to stay in a prison or another place which you cannot leave.
• captivity — Captivity is the state of being kept imprisoned or enclosed.
• incarceration — the act of incarcerating, or putting in prison or another enclosure: The incarceration rate has increased dramatically.
• custody — Custody is the legal right to keep and look after a child, especially the right given to a child's mother or father when they get divorced.
• jailing — a prison, especially one for the detention of persons awaiting trial or convicted of minor offenses.
• thralldom — the state of being a thrall; bondage; slavery; servitude.
• bondage — Bondage is the condition of being someone's property and having to work for them.
• restraint — a restraining action or influence: freedom from restraint.
• quarantine — a strict isolation imposed to prevent the spread of disease.
• duress — compulsion by threat or force; coercion; constraint.
• remand — to send back, remit, or consign again.
• thraldom — the state of being a thrall; bondage; slavery; servitude.
• durance — incarceration or imprisonment (often used in the phrase durance vile).
• immuration — to enclose within walls.
• confining — to enclose within bounds; limit or restrict: She confined her remarks to errors in the report. Confine your efforts to finishing the book.
• quarantining — a strict isolation imposed to prevent the spread of disease.
• detention — Detention is when someone is arrested or put into prison, especially for political reasons.
• sentence — Grammar. a grammatical unit of one or more words that expresses an independent statement, question, request, command, exclamation, etc., and that typically has a subject as well as a predicate, as in John is here. or Is John here? In print or writing, a sentence typically begins with a capital letter and ends with appropriate punctuation; in speech it displays recognizable, communicative intonation patterns and is often marked by preceding and following pauses.
• term — a word or phrase that has a specific or precise meaning within a given discipline or field and might have a different meaning in common usage: Set is a term of art used by mathematicians, and burden of proof is a term of art used by lawyers.
• time — the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
• internment — an act or instance of interning.
• gaoling — Present participle of gaol.
• capturing — Present participle of capture.
• detaining — Present participle of detain.
• immuring — Present participle of immure.
• imprisoning — Present participle of imprison.