Synonyms: imprisonment, internment
Definition: the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison)
Similar words: confinement
Definition: the act of restraining of a person's liberty by confining them
Synonyms: imprisonment
Definition: putting someone in prison or in jail as lawful punishment
Similar words: punishment, penalisation, penalization, penalty
Definition: the act of punishing
Synonyms: captivity, immurement, imprisonment, incarceration
Definition: the state of being imprisoned
Usage: 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