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English noun: imprisonment | |||
| 1. | imprisonment (act) putting someone in prison or in jail as lawful punishment | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | penalisation, penalization, penalty, punishment | ||
| Domain category | jurisprudence, law | ||
| 2. | imprisonment (state) the state of being imprisoned | ||
| Samples | 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 | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | confinement | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | durance, internment, life imprisonment | ||
| 3. | imprisonment (act) the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison) | ||
| Synonyms | internment | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | confinement | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | custody, false imprisonment, lockdown | ||
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