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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
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. capital punishment by entombing for life.
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.
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 , ...
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 ...