Associations to the word «Imprisonment»
Noun
- Captor
- Conscription
- Refusal
- Life
- Sanction
- Misconduct
- Charge
- Statute
- Hardship
- Appeal
- Persons
- Nuremberg
- Seizure
- Blackmail
- Bribe
- Creditor
- Starvation
- Corpus
- Assassination
- Martyrdom
- Terrorism
- Censorship
- Restraint
- Death
- Scaffold
- Overthrow
- Escape
- Hanging
- Gallows
- Cruelty
- Retribution
- Accusation
- Smuggling
- Heresy
- Legality
- Hunger
- Suffering
- Atrocity
- Year
- Abuse
- Firearm
- Pun
- Term
- Ordinance
- Narcotic
- Suppression
- Corruption
- Insurrection
- Person
- Regime
- Cruel
- Nazis
- Murderer
- Dictatorship
- Warrant
Adjective
Verb
Wiktionary
IMPRISONMENT, noun. A confinement in a place, especially a prison or a jail, as punishment for a crime.
IMPRISONMENT WARRANT, noun. (legal) a court order authorising the imprisonment of a person sentenced to imprisonment; a court order authorising the execution of an imprisonment sentence.
Dictionary definition
IMPRISONMENT, noun. Putting someone in prison or in jail as lawful punishment.
IMPRISONMENT, noun. 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".
IMPRISONMENT, noun. The act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison).
Wise words
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