Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Imprisonment"

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

imprisonment
n 1: putting someone in prison or in jail as lawful punishment
2: 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" [syn: {captivity}, {incarceration}, {immurement}]
3: the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a
prison) [syn: {internment}]


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