Definition for Imprisonment:

• The act of imprisoning or state of being imprisoned: confinement or restraint.

Synonyms for Imprisonment:

• 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.
  •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.

• Other synonyms:

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

Paraphrases for Imprisonment:

• Equivalence

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

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    punishment, penalty.

• Independent

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

• Other Related

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

Antonyms for Imprisonment:

• n.

  • forcible detention
    liberating, liberty, liberation, discharge, release, freedom.
  • Other antonyms:
    independence, redemption, emancipation, manumission.

Imprisonment Sentence Examples:

• This they answered with a " Guilty," and condemned the accused to an imprisonment of twelve years.

• The girl made no effort to escape from her imprisonment, and showed little desire to exchange the embrace she endured for that of the forest.

Hyponym for Imprisonment:

• n.

  • act
    penalization, punishment, penalisation, penalty.