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We found 20 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word imprisonment:
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General dictionaries General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. imprisonment: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info]
  2. imprisonment: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
  3. imprisonment: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
  4. imprisonment: Wiktionary [home, info]
  5. imprisonment: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  6. imprisonment: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  7. imprisonment: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
  8. Imprisonment: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  9. imprisonment: Rhymezone [home, info]
  10. imprisonment: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  11. imprisonment: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  12. imprisonment: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  13. imprisonment: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  14. imprisonment: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  15. imprisonment: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]

Business dictionaries Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Imprisonment: THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM [home, info]
  2. IMPRISONMENT: Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition [home, info]
  3. imprisonment: Legal dictionary [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. imprisonment: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine dictionaries Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. imprisonment: Medical dictionary [home, info]

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Quick definitions (imprisonment)

noun:  the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison)
noun:  putting someone in prison or in jail as lawful punishment
noun:  the state of being imprisoned ("The imprisonment of captured soldiers")

▸ Also see imprison

Phrases that include imprisonment:   false arrest and imprisonment, solitary imprisonment, alternatives to imprisonment, psychiatric imprisonment

Words similar to imprisonment:   captivity, immurement, imprison, incarceration, internment, jailing, more...


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