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Synonyms:
- prison, enslavement, castigation, immurement, penalty, chastisement, sentence, anguish, price, crucifixion, reprisal, burden, detainment, hold, restraint, fine, detainer, impoundment, confinement, captivity, persecution, verdict, discipline, distress, execution, judgment, correction, forfeiture, internment, torture, punishment, agony, payment, revenge, affliction, retribution, imprisonment
Examples:
- - There is no other place for the magistrate to send the boy, if his parents demand his incarceration, and the sheriff is not prepared to take him to the reform school immediately, and so he is tossed into the general rag- bag of offenders to take his chances. - "Notes of an Itinerant Policeman", Josiah Flynt
- - But all this happened in the middle of the efforts which were being made to trace the purchase of the bludgeon, and when men hoped two or five or twenty- five years of threatened incarceration might be all the same to Mr. Emilius. - "Phineas Redux", Anthony Trollope
- - In the scale of academical punishments, first stands reproof, then pecuniary fine, then incarceration. - "The Student-Life of Germany", William Howitt
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