Synonyms of the word

imprisonment

• n. A confinement in a place, especially a prison or a jail, as punishment for a crime.

captivity

• n. The state of being captive.
• n. (obsolete) A group of people/beings captive.
• n. The state or period of being imprisoned, confined, or enslaved.

confinement

• n. the act of confining or the state of being confined.
• n. lying-in, time of giving birth.

immurement

• n. Capital punishment by entombing for life.

incarceration

• n. The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment.
• n. Formerly, strangulation, as in hernia.
• n. A constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it irreducible, but not great enough to cause strangulation.

internment

• n. Confinement within narrow limits, as of foreign troops, to the interior of a country.

penalisation

• n. Alternative spelling of penalization.

penalization

• n. The act of punishing; punishment.

penalty

• n. A legal sentence.
• n. A punishment for violating rules of procedure.
• n. (finance) A payment forfeited for an early withdrawal from an account or an investment.
• n. (soccer) A direct free kick from the penalty spot, taken after a defensive foul in the penalty box; a…
• n. (ice hockey) A punishment for an infraction of the rules, often in the form of being removed from play…

punishment

• n. The act or process of punishing, imposing and/or applying a sanction.
• n. A penalty to punish wrongdoing, especially for crime.
• n. A suffering by pain or loss imposed as retribution.
• n. (figuratively) Any treatment or experience so harsh it feels like being punished; rough handling.