Synonyms of the word

internment

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

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.

impounding

• v. present participle of impound.

impoundment

• n. A body of water impounded within an enclosure, such as a reservoir.
• n. The act of impounding.
• n. The state of being impounded.

imprisonment

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

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.

poundage

• n. (countable) a charge based on the weight of something in pounds.
• n. (countable) a charge based on the value of something in pounds sterling.
• n. (countable) a weight measured in pounds.
• n. (countable) a fee charged for keeping an animal in a pound, or for its release.
• n. (uncountable) the keeping of an animal in a pound.
• v. To collect, as poundage; to assess, or rate, by poundage.

seizure

• n. The act of taking possession, as by force or right of law.
• n. A sudden attack or convulsion, (e.g. an epileptic seizure).
• n. A sudden onset of pain or emotion.
• n. (obsolete) retention within one's grasp or power; possession; ownership.
• n. That which is seized, or taken possession of; a thing laid hold of, or possessed.