1. Putting someone in prison or in jail as lawful punishment 
2. The state of being imprisoned
   "the imprisonment of captured soldiers"
   - captivity, incarceration, immurement 
3. The act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison)
   - internment

Derived forms: imprisonments

See also: imprison

Type of: confinement, penalisation [Brit], penalization, penalty, punishment

Encyclopedia: Imprisonment

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