1. (

• imprisonment ,

) putting someone in prison or in jail as lawful punishment ;

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" ;

3. (

• imprisonment ,
• internment

) the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison) ;