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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | physical detention by force |
| Synonyms: | bondage, committal, confinement, constraint, custody, durance, duress, enslavement, enthrallment, entombment, impoundment, imprisonment, incarceration, internment, jail, limbo, restraint, serfdom, servitude, slavery, subjection, thralldom, vassalage |
| Antonyms: | freedom, independence, liberty, license |
| Main Entry: | detention |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | confinement, imprisonment |
| Synonyms: | apprehension, arrest, arrestation, bust, custody, delay, detainment, hindrance, holding back, holding pen, immurement, impediment, incarceration, internment, keeping in, nab, pen*, pickup, pinch*, quarantine, restraint, retention, time up the river, withholding |
| Antonyms: | freedom, liberation, release |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Main Entry: | confinement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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begirt, buried in, cabined, circumscribed, coactive, cohibitive, constrained, determinate, embedded, embosomed, encysted, enwreathing, fenced, hapteric, hedged in, hidebound, ice, immuring, imprisoned, in a ring fence, in custody, in lob's pound, in swaddling, jammed in, laid by the heels, landlocked, lapt, mewed up, nidulant, obvallate, on parole, put up, restrained, restringent, stiff, strait, under lock and key, under restraint, weather, wind
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