Imprisonment - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |ɪmˈprɪznmənt|  American pronunciation of the word imprisonment
Brit.  |ɪmˈprɪz(ə)nm(ə)nt|  British pronunciation of the word imprisonment

noun

- putting someone in prison or in jail as lawful punishment
- the state of being imprisoned (syn: captivity, immurement, incarceration)
the imprisonment of captured soldiers
- the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison) (syn: internment)

Extra examples

He was imprisoned for murder.

He has threatened to imprison his political opponents.

They were sentenced to 6 years' imprisonment.

The punishment for murder is life imprisonment.

I think that murderers should be punished by life imprisonment.

He appealed for a commutation of his death sentence to life imprisonment.

The judge commuted his death sentence to life imprisonment.

...the newspaper had to expurgate the expletive-laden speech that the criminal made upon being sentenced to life imprisonment...

Challenges to fight are punishable by fine and imprisonment.

His family and friends clamoured against the man's wrongful imprisonment.

The death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment.

Many writers, threatened with imprisonment, have defected to the West.

He was given life imprisonment for the crime.

The strictness of his imprisonment had been loosened.

He went into exile to escape political imprisonment.

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