imprisonment

Noun

• the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison)

• the state of being imprisoned
  • he was held in captivity until he died
    
  • the imprisonment of captured soldiers
    
  • his ignominious incarceration in the local jail
    
  • he practiced the immurement of his enemies in the castle dungeon
    

• putting someone in prison or in jail as lawful punishment

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  internment , captivity , incarceration , immurement