imprison
15 months of his imprisonment was spent in the King County jail.
Some of these refugees face imprisonment, torture and even possibly execution if they have to return home.
Imprisonment has always been a vital part of the strategy of civil disobedience.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Putting people in prison
at His/Her Majesty's pleasureidiom
bang someone up
bar
behind barsidiom
bird
commit
immured
imprison
in custody
incarcerate
incarceration
intern
lock
pen
remand someone in custody
restraint
rot
rot in jail, prison, etc.idiom
self-surrender
stretch

Examples of imprisonment

imprisonment
Enclosure and constraint, both broader and more general in meaning than simple physical imprisonment, are therefore important themes.
The majority of sentences were for perpetual imprisonment, but many of these were released a year or so later.
Porters absconding after an advance of wages were liable to a fine of 60 rupees, along with six months imprisonment and 25 lashes.
To date, the effects of parental imprisonment on children have been almost entirely neglected in academic research, public policy, and media coverage.
Posttraumatic stress disorder following political imprisonment : the role of mental defeat, alienation, and perceived permanent change.
Fines and imprisonment could, and indeed did, follow for those found guilty of placing or accepting off-course cash bets.
According to the selection perspective, parental imprisonment predicts internalizing problems because prisoners' children are already disproportionally disadvantaged, not because parental imprisonment causes problems for children.
A total of 1,490 sentences were handed down, including 504 for imprisonment or detention in a reform school.
His body reacts to the imprisonment of his soul.
Parental imprisonment might also cause children's internalizing problems because of the stigma attached to it.
For one thing, invalidation would seem to be cheaper in that imprisonment is avoided.
The power of informal judicial pressure - together with the ominous threat of imprisonment, suspension, and possible deprivation - should not be underestimated.
Under the 1643 ordinance, sellers, guarantors and buyers in land transactions had all faced imprisonment, and the sellers had also faced subsequent exile.
Offenders were given two months to comply or face excommunication, imprisonment, fines or exile.
Figure 1 shows a conceptual model of these possible links between parental imprisonment and children's internalizing problems.
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