IMMUREMENT Synonyms

• putting someone in prison or in jail as lawful punishment

• the state of being imprisoned

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

• the state of being imprisoned

• concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child

• the act of restraining of a person's liberty by confining them

• the state of being confined

• the act of keeping something within specified bounds (by force if necessary)

• a state of being confined (usually for a short time)

• a punishment in which a student must stay at school after others have gone home

• confinement during wartime

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

• placing private property in the custody of an officer of the law

• a state of separation between persons or groups

• a feeling of being disliked and alone

• the act of isolating something; setting something apart from others

• (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which memory of an unacceptable act or impulse is separated from the emotion originally associated with it

• a country's withdrawal from international politics

• the quality of being secluded from the presence or view of others

• the act of secluding yourself from others

• the act of segregating or sequestering

• the action of forming a chelate or other stable compound with an ion or atom or molecule so that it is no longer available for reactions

• a writ that authorizes the seizure of property

• seizing property that belongs to someone else and holding it until profits pay the demand for which it was seized