Synonyms: internment, impounding, impoundment, poundage
Definition: placing private property in the custody of an officer of the law
Similar words: seizure
Definition: the taking possession of something by legal process
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: internment
Definition: confinement during wartime
Similar words: 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