125 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ ɪmpɹˈɪzənmənt], [ ɪmpɹˈɪzənmənt], [ ɪ_m_p_ɹ_ˈɪ_z_ə_n_m_ə_n_t]

Related words: prison, jail, inmate, jailer, jail sentence, jail time, jail sentence calculator, prison sentence, criminal justice system

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Similar words for imprisonment:

• other relevant words (adjective)
• act (noun)
• arrest (noun)
• captivity (noun)
• capture (noun)
• forcible detention (noun)
• immurement (noun)
• other relevant words (noun)
• persecution (noun)
• placing in forcible detention (noun)
• punishment (noun)
• restraint (noun)
• other relevant words (verb)
• other synonyms
• confinement

How to use "imprisonment" in context?

Paraphrases for imprisonment

Hyponyms for imprisonment

Synonyms for Imprisonment:

• adj.

  • Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • physical condition.

• n.

  • act (noun)
  • imprisonment.
  • arrest (noun)
  • preventive custodies,
  • pick ups,
  • protective custodies,
  • sequesterings,
  • re straining,
  • gloms,
  • restrainings,
  • pull ins,
  • re-straining.
  • captivity (noun)
  • subjections,
  • vassalages.
  • capture (noun)
  • gainings,
  • winnings,
  • laying hold of,
  • taking captive,
  • obtainings,
  • takings,
  • snatchings.
  • forcible detention (noun)
  • incarceration,
  • confinement,
  • isolation,
  • immuration,
  • remand,
  • bondage,
  • thraldom,
  • quarantine,
  • restraint.
  • immurement (noun)
  • immurement.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • impoundment,
  • falls,
  • serfdom,
  • vassalage,
  • pick up,
  • run in,
  • mistreatment,
  • violence,
  • gaff,
  • persecution,
  • protective custody,
  • jailings,
  • durances,
  • internment,
  • internments,
  • subjection,
  • duress,
  • ill treatments,
  • nick,
  • committal,
  • MITTS,
  • durance,
  • committals,
  • custody,
  • capture,
  • Detainment,
  • ill-treatment,
  • preventive custody,
  • thralldom,
  • gaffs,
  • mitt,
  • glom,
  • captivity,
  • impoundments.
  • persecution (noun)
  • mis-treatment,
  • provokings,
  • ill-treatments,
  • mis treatment,
  • ill treatment,
  • illtreatments,
  • gallings,
  • teasings,
  • mis treatments,
  • mis-treatments,
  • illtreatment.
  • placing in forcible detention (noun)
  • Detaining,
  • Capturing,
  • Immuring,
  • locking up,
  • Incarcerating,
  • confining,
  • jailing,
  • Imprisoning,
  • Quarantining.
  • punishment (noun)
  • crucifixion,
  • reprisal,
  • price,
  • affliction,
  • verdict,
  • fine,
  • penalty,
  • correction,
  • sentence,
  • agony,
  • chastisement,
  • payment,
  • retribution,
  • discipline,
  • revenge,
  • execution,
  • distress,
  • torture,
  • burden,
  • castigation,
  • judgment,
  • forfeiture,
  • anguish,
  • punishment.
  • restraint (noun)
  • straitjacket,
  • straitjackets,
  • pinion,
  • pinions.

• v.

  • Other relevant words: (verb)
  • arrest.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • life imprisonment,
  • escape,
  • solitary confinement,
  • hard labor,
  • life sentence,
  • correctional,
  • extraordinary rendition.
  •
  • rendition,
  • transportation.
  •
  • solitary.
  •
  • life.
  • confinement
  • limbo.

How to use "Imprisonment" in context?

Paraphrases for Imprisonment:

• Equivalence

  • Proper noun, singular
    incarceration.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    captivity, incarceration, internment, jailing.

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    penalty, punishment.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    penal-correctional.
  • Proper noun, singular
    gets.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    brig, committal, constraint, entrapment, extent, inmate, lockup, servitude, string, Reclusion, Perpetua, Institutionalization.
  • Verb, past tense
    Bailed.
  • Verb, past participle
    confined, imposed, kept, locked, punished, released, spent, Caught, Sentenced, Served, Stationed.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    penitentiary, prison, solitary.
  • Proper noun, singular
    confinement, custody, detention, imprisoned, penitentiary, prison, sentence, Prisons, jails, detentions.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    confinement, conviction, custody, deprivation, detention, imprisoned, liberty, life, penitentiary, perpetuity, prison, seclusion, sentence, Detainment, Sentenced, Sentencing.
  • Verb, past tense
    detention, prison, Sentenced.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    Imprisoning, Incarcerating.
  • Verb, past participle
    detention, imprisoned, prison.
  • Verb, base form
    imprison.

Hyponym for Imprisonment:

• n.

  • act
    penalization, punishment, penalisation, penalty.