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The state of being imprisoned
Answer for the clue "The state of being imprisoned ", 10 letters:
immurement
Word definitions for immurement in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. 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" [syn: captivity , ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Immurement \Im*mure"ment\, n. The act of immuring, or the state of being immured; imprisonment.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. capital punishment by entombing for life.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Immurement (from Latin im- "in" and mūrus "wall"; literally "walling in") is a form of imprisonment, usually for life, in which a person is placed within an enclosed space with no exits. This includes instances where people have been enclosed in extremely ...