Another word for captivity
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Noun
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- The condition of being a thrall; servitude; slavery
- A guarding or keeping safe; care; protection; guardianship
- The state of being detained or held under guard, especially by the police:
- The control and care of a person or property, especially when granted by a court:
- The act of entrusting:
- The act of committing someone to confinement; an order for someone's imprisonment.
- The act of pledging oneself to a particular view or position:
- (Archaic) Imprisonment, esp. when long continued
- Confinement or restraint by force; imprisonment.
- (Archaic) Imprisonment; forced confinement.
- A device or other means of limiting movement, used to prevent the infliction of harm to self or others.
- Control of the expression of one's feelings; constraint:
- The condition of being restrained, especially the condition of losing one's freedom:
- One that restricts, limits, or regulates; a check:
- The state of being restricted or confined within prescribed bounds:
- Confinement or restriction
- The decommissioning of a radioactive site by encasing it in concrete
- The act of entombing or the state of being entombed
- The act of impounding
- The act of impounding or the state of being impounded.
- A body of water impounded within an enclosure, such as a reservoir
- The condition in which one person is owned as property by another and is under the owner's control, especially in involuntary servitude.
- The condition of being subject or addicted to a specified influence.
- A mode of production in which slaves constitute the principal work force.
- A condition of prolonged uncertainty or neglect:
- (Roman Catholic Church) The abode of unbaptized but innocent or righteous souls, as those of infants or virtuous individuals who lived before the coming of Christ.
- (Place, proper) In some Christian theologies, the eternal abode or state, neither heaven nor hell, of the souls of infants or others dying in original sin but free of grievous personal sin, or, before the coming of Christ, the temporary abode or state of all holy souls after death
- The act or ritual of interring or burying.
- The state or a period of being detained, especially:
- A keeping in custody; confinement
- A period of temporary custody while awaiting trial.
- A criminal defense for an act undertaken under threat of serious bodily harm:
- Forcible confinement.
- Imprisonment
- (Law) The burden placed upon the property of a person by a specified right another has in its use
- Lack of personal freedom, as to act as one chooses.
- Forced labor imposed as a punishment for crime:
- The state of one who is bound as a slave or serf.
- A state of subjection to a force, power, or influence.
- Serfdom or slavery
- A confinement in a place, especially a prison.
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