Synonyms of the word

remand

• n. The act of sending an accused person back into custody whilst awaiting trial.
• n. The act of an appellate court sending a matter back to a lower court for review or disposal.
• v. To send a prisoner back to custody.
• v. To send a case back to a lower court for further consideration.
• v. (obsolete) To send back.

challenge

• n. A confrontation; a dare.
• n. A difficult task, especially one that the person making the attempt finds more enjoyable because of that…
• n. (law) A procedure or action.
• n. (hunting) The opening and crying of hounds at first finding the scent of their game.
• v. To invite someone to take part in a competition.
• v. To dare someone.
• v. To dispute something.
• v. (law) To make a formal objection to a juror.
• v. (obsolete) To claim as due; to demand as a right.
• v. (obsolete) To censure; to blame.
• v. (military) To question or demand the countersign from (one who attempts to pass the lines).
• v. (US) To object to the reception of the vote of, e.g. on the ground that the person is not qualified as…
• v. (Canada, US) To take (a final exam) in order to get credit for a course without taking it.

confine

• v. (transitive) To restrict; to keep within bounds; to shut or keep in a limited space or area.
• v. To have a common boundary; to border; to lie contiguous; to touch; followed by on or with.
• n. Limit.

detain

• v. (transitive) To keep someone from proceeding by holding them back or making claims on their attention.
• v. (transitive) To put under custody.
• v. (transitive) To keep back or from; to withhold.
• v. (transitive) To seize goods for official purposes.

gaol

• n. (Britain, Ireland, Australia) Alternative spelling of jail.
• v. (Britain) Alternative spelling of jail.

immure

• v. (transitive) To cloister, confine, imprison: to lock up behind walls.
• v. (transitive) To put or bury within a wall.
• v. (transitive, crystallography and geology, of a growing crystal) To trap or capture (an impurity); chiefly…
• n. (obsolete) A wall; an enclosure.

imprison

• v. (transitive) To put in or as if in prison; confine.

incarcerate

• v. To lock away; to imprison, especially for breaking the law.
• v. To confine; to shut up or enclose; to hem in.

jail

• n. A place or institution for the confinement of persons held in lawful custody or detention, especially…
• n. (uncountable) Confinement in a jail.
• n. (horse racing) The condition created by the requirement that a horse claimed in a claiming race not be…
• n. In dodgeball and related games, the area where players who have been struck by the ball are confined.
• v. To imprison.

jug

• n. A serving vessel or container, circular in cross-section and typically higher than it is wide, with a…
• n. The amount that a jug can hold.
• n. (slang) Jail.
• n. (vulgar, slang, chiefly in the plural) A woman's breasts.
• n. (New Zealand) A kettle.
• v. (transitive) To stew in an earthenware jug etc.
• v. (transitive, slang) To put into jail.
• v. (intransitive) To utter a sound like "jug", as certain birds do, especially the nightingale.
• v. (intransitive, of quails or partridges) To nestle or collect together in a covey.

lag

• adj. late.
• adj. (obsolete) Last; long-delayed.
• adj. Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.
• n. (countable) A gap, a delay; an interval created by something not keeping up; a latency.
• n. (uncountable) Delay; latency.
• n. (Britain, slang, archaic) One sentenced to transportation for a crime.
• n. (Britain, slang) a prisoner, a criminal.
• n. (snooker) A method of deciding which player shall start. Both players simultaneously strike a cue ball…
• n. One who lags; that which comes in last.
• n. The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.
• n. A stave of a cask, drum, etc.; especially (engineering) one of the narrow boards or staves forming the…
• n. A bird, the greylag.
• v. to fail to keep up (the pace), to fall behind.
• v. to cover (for example, pipes) with felt strips or similar material.
• v. (Britain, slang, archaic) To transport as a punishment for crime.
• v. (transitive) To cause to lag; to slacken.

remit

• v. To forgive, pardon.
• v. To refrain from exacting or enforcing.
• v. (transitive, obsolete, rare) To give up; omit; cease doing.
• v. To allow (something) to slacken, to relax (one's attention etc.).
• v. (obsolete) To show a lessening or abatement (of) a specified quality.
• v. (obsolete) To diminish, abate.
• v. To refer (something) for deliberation, judgment, etc. (to a particular body or person).
• v. (obsolete) To send back.
• v. (archaic) To give or deliver up; surrender; resign.
• v. To restore or replace.
• v. To postpone.
• v. To transmit or send, as money in payment.
• n. (chiefly Britain) terms of reference; set of responsibilities; scope.

return

• v. (intransitive) To come or go back (to a place or person).
• v. (intransitive) To go back in thought, narration, or argument.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To turn back, retreat.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To turn (something) round.
• v. (transitive) To place or put back something where it had been.
• v. (transitive) To give something back to its original holder or owner.
• v. (transitive) To take back something to a vendor for a refund.
• v. To give in requital or recompense; to requite.
• v. (tennis) To bat the ball back over the net in response to a serve.
• v. (card games) To play a card as a result of another player's lead.
• v. (cricket) To throw a ball back to the wicket-keeper (or a fielder at that position) from somewhere in…
• v. (transitive) To say in reply; to respond.
• v. (intransitive, computing) To relinquish control to the calling procedure.
• v. (transitive, computing) To pass (data) back to the calling procedure.
• v. (transitive, dated) To retort; to throw back.
• v. (transitive) To report, or bring back and make known.
• v. (by extension, Britain) To elect according to the official report of the election officers.
• n. The act of returning.
• n. A return ticket.
• n. An item that is returned, e.g. due to a defect, or the act of returning it.
• n. An answer.
• n. An account, or formal report, of an action performed, of a duty discharged, of facts or statistics, etc…
• n. Gain or loss from an investment.
• n. (taxation, finance): A report of income submitted to a government for purposes of specifying exact tax…
• n. (computing) A carriage return character.
• n. (computing) The act of relinquishing control to the calling procedure.
• n. (computing) A return value: the data passed back from a called procedure.
• n. A short perpendicular extension of a desk, usually slightly lower.
• n. (American football) Catching a ball after a punt and running it back towards the opposing team.
• n. (cricket) A throw from a fielder to the wicket-keeper or to another fielder at the wicket.
• n. (architecture) The continuation in a different direction, most often at a right angle, of a building,…