Noun imprisonment has 3 senses
  1. imprisonment - putting someone in prison or in jail as lawful punishment
    --1 is a kind of
    punishment, penalty, penalization, penalisation
    Derived form: verb imprison1
  2. captivity, imprisonment, incarceration, immurement - the state of being imprisoned; "he was held in captivity until he died"; "the imprisonment of captured soldiers"; "his ignominious incarceration in the local jail"; "he practiced the immurement of his enemies in the castle dungeon"
    --2 is a kind of confinement
    --2 has particulars: durance; life imprisonment; internment
    Derived form: verb imprison2
  3. imprisonment, internment - the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison)
    --3 is a kind of confinement
    --3 has particulars: lockdown; false imprisonment; custody
    Derived form: verb imprison1
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