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imprisonment
noun as in forcible detention
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noun as in placing in forcible detention
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- capturing
- confining
- detaining
- immuring
- imprisoning
- incarcerating
- locking up
- quarantining
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In February, Wesley’s parents watched as Eis, displaying little to no emotion, pleaded guilty to 10 felony charges — including first-degree murder, premeditated attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon and false imprisonment by violence.
He was sentenced at Southwark Crown Court to 40 months' imprisonment for each count, to be served concurrently.
A mother who drowned her two young sons in the bath in what the judge described as "the stuff of nightmares" has been sentenced to life imprisonment.
"Manasra's rights were systematically stripped since his imprisonment. He has only been allowed to see his immediate family through a glass wall, without any physical contact," Adalah said in a statement.
That led the Nazis to burn Feuchtwanger’s books and his imprisonment in France under the Vichy regime.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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