All internment synonyms

noun internment

• confinement — Confinement is the state of being forced to stay in a prison or another place which you cannot leave.
• bondage — Bondage is the condition of being someone's property and having to work for them.
• imprisonment — to confine in or as if in a prison.
• slavery — the condition of a slave; bondage.
• incarceration — the act of incarcerating, or putting in prison or another enclosure: The incarceration rate has increased dramatically.
• confinement — Confinement is the state of being forced to stay in a prison or another place which you cannot leave.
• custody — Custody is the legal right to keep and look after a child, especially the right given to a child's mother or father when they get divorced.
• detention — Detention is when someone is arrested or put into prison, especially for political reasons.
• repression — the act of repressing; state of being repressed.
• quarantine — a strict isolation imposed to prevent the spread of disease.
• delay — If you delay doing something, you do not do it immediately or at the planned or expected time, but you leave it until later.
• arrest — If the police arrest you, they take charge of you and take you to a police station, because they believe you may have committed a crime.
• in-thrall — to captivate or charm: a performer whose grace, skill, and virtuosity enthrall her audiences.
• duress — compulsion by threat or force; coercion; constraint.
• thralldom — the state of being a thrall; bondage; slavery; servitude.
• constraint — A constraint is something that limits or controls what you can do.
• restraint — a restraining action or influence: freedom from restraint.
• jail — a prison, especially one for the detention of persons awaiting trial or convicted of minor offenses.
• servitude — slavery or bondage of any kind: political or intellectual servitude.
• limbo — (often initial capital letter) Roman Catholic Theology. a region on the border of hell or heaven, serving as the abode after death of unbaptized infants (limbo of infants) and of the righteous who died before the coming of Christ (limbo of the fathers or limbo of the patriarchs)
• serfdom — a person in a condition of servitude, required to render services to a lord, commonly attached to the lord's land and transferred with it from one owner to another.
• subjection — the act of subjecting.
• vassalage — the state or condition of a vassal.
• committal — Committal is the process of officially sending someone to a prison or to hospital.
• impoundment — a body of water confined within an enclosure, as a reservoir.
• durance — incarceration or imprisonment (often used in the phrase durance vile).
• control — Control of an organization, place, or system is the power to make all the important decisions about the way that it is run.
• keeping — board and lodging; subsistence; support: to work for one's keep.
• safekeeping — the act of keeping safe or the state of being kept safe; protection; care; custody.
• cramp — Cramp is a sudden strong pain caused by a muscle suddenly contracting. You sometimes get cramp in a muscle after you have been making a physical effort over a long period of time.
• limitation — a limiting condition; restrictive weakness; lack of capacity; inability or handicap: He knows his limitations as a writer.
• curb — If you curb something, you control it and keep it within limits.
• circumscription — the act of circumscribing or the state of being circumscribed
• coercion — Coercion is the act or process of persuading someone forcefully to do something that they do not want to do.
• check — Check is also a noun.
• bonds — Barry (Lamar). born 1964, US baseball player: holder of records for most home runs in a season (73) and a career (762)
• bounds — a limit; boundary (esp in the phrase know no bounds)
• delimitation — delimit.
• withholding — to hold back; restrain or check.
• apprehension — Apprehension is a feeling of fear that something bad may happen.
• hindrance — an impeding, stopping, preventing, or the like.
• pen — a female swan.
• bust — a raid, search, or arrest by the police
• detainment — to keep from proceeding; keep waiting; delay.
• pickup — an improvement, as in health, business conditions, work, production, etc.
• impediment — obstruction; hindrance; obstacle.
• pinch — to squeeze or compress between the finger and thumb, the teeth, the jaws of an instrument, or the like.
• retention — the act of retaining.
• immurement — to enclose within walls.
• bounding — under a legal or moral obligation: He is bound by the terms of the contract.