| Main Entry: | incarceration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | imprisonment |
Synonyms: |
captivity, confinement, restraint |
| Main Entry: | arrest |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | taking into custody |
Synonyms: |
accommodation, apprehension, appropriation, bag*, booby trap, bust, captivity, capture, collar, commitment, confinement, constraint, crimp, detention, drop*, fall*, gaff, glom, grab*, heat*, hook*, imprisonment, incarceration, jailing, mitt, nab, nail, nick, nip, pick up*, pickle, pinch*, preventive custody, protective custody, pull in, pull*, restraining, run in, sequestering, snare, sweep* |
| Main Entry: | captivity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | physical detention by force |
Synonyms: |
bondage, committal, confinement, constraint, custody, durance, duress, enslavement, enthrallment, entombment, impoundment, imprisonment, incarceration, internment, jail, limbo, restraint, serfdom, servitude, slavery, subjection, thralldom, vassalage |
Antonyms: |
freedom, independence, liberty, license |
| Main Entry: | confinement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | imprisonment; restriction |
Synonyms: |
bonds, bounding, bounds, check, circumscription, coercion, constrainment, constraint, control, cramp, curb, custody, delimitation, detention, immuration, incarceration, internment, jail, keeping, limitation, repression, safekeeping, trammels |
Antonyms: |
freedom, liberation |
| Main Entry: | custody |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | confinement, jailing |
Synonyms: |
arrest, detention, duress, imprisonment, incarceration, jail, keeping |
Antonyms: |
freedom, liberation, liberty |
| Main Entry: | detention |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | confinement, imprisonment |
Synonyms: |
apprehension, arrest, arrestation, bust, custody, delay, detainment, hindrance, holding back, holding pen, immurement, impediment, incarceration, internment, keeping in, nab, pen*, pickup, pinch*, quarantine, restraint, retention, time up the river, withholding |
Antonyms: |
freedom, liberation, release |
| Main Entry: | duress |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | threat, hardship |
Synonyms: |
bondage, captivity, coercion, compulsion, confinement, constraint, control, detention, discipline, force, imprisonment, incarceration, pressure, restraint, violence |
| Main Entry: | imprisonment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | forcible detention |
Synonyms: |
bondage, captivity, captivity, confinement, custody, durance, duress, immuration, incarceration, isolation, quarantine, remand, restraint, thraldom, thralldom |
Antonyms: |
freedom, liberty |
| Main Entry: | confinement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
begirt, buried in, cabined, circumscribed, coactive, cohibitive, constrained, determinate, embedded, embosomed, encysted, enwreathing, fenced, hapteric, hedged in, hidebound, ice, immuring, imprisoned, in a ring fence, in custody, in lob's pound, in swaddling, jammed in, laid by the heels, landlocked, lapt, mewed up, nidulant, obvallate, on parole, put up, restrained, restringent, stiff, strait, under lock and key, under restraint, weather, wind
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