Exact Match:
Synonyms:
- captivity,
- close arrest,
- confinement,
- detention,
- dismemberment,
- durance,
- durance vile,
- duress,
- estrapade,
- galleys,
- hard labor,
- house arrest,
- immuration,
- immurement,
- impalement,
- imprisonment,
- incarceration,
- internment,
- keelhauling,
- martyrdom,
- penal servitude,
- picketing,
- railriding,
- rock pile,
- strappado,
- tar-and-feathering,
- term of imprisonment,
- the gantlet,
- torment,
- torture
Related Words:
- arduousness,
- backbreaking work,
- burdensomeness,
- confinement,
- dismemberment,
- effortfulness,
- estrapade,
- galleys,
- hard job,
- hard work,
- impalement,
- imprisonment,
- incarceration,
- jailing,
- keelhauling,
- laboriousness,
- martyrdom,
- onerousness,
- oppressiveness,
- penal servitude,
- picketing,
- railriding,
- rock pile,
- strappado,
- strenuousness,
- tar-and-feathering,
- the gantlet,
- toilsomeness,
- torment,
- torture,
- troublesomeness,
- uphill work,
- warm work
- beleaguerment,
- besetment,
- blockade,
- blockading,
- captivity,
- circumscription,
- close arrest,
- confinement,
- cordoning,
- detention,
- dismemberment,
- durance,
- durance vile,
- duress,
- enclosure,
- envelopment,
- estrapade,
- galleys,
- hard labor,
- house arrest,
- immuration,
- immurement,
- impalement,
- imprisonment,
- inclusion,
- internment,
- jailing,
- keelhauling,
- martyrdom,
- penal servitude,
- picketing,
- quarantine,
- railriding,
- rock pile,
- siege,
- strappado,
- tar-and-feathering,
- term of imprisonment,
- the gantlet,
- torment,
- torture
- imprisonment
collapse - the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison)
- putting someone in prison or in jail as lawful punishment related words >
- beleaguerment,
- besetment,
- blockade,
- blockading,
- captivity,
- circumscription,
- close arrest,
- confinement,
- cordoning,
- custody,
- detention,
- dismemberment,
- durance,
- durance vile,
- duress,
- enclosure,
- envelopment,
- estrapade,
- galleys,
- hard labor,
- house arrest,
- immuration,
- immurement,
- impalement,
- incarceration,
- inclusion,
- internment,
- jailing,
- keelhauling,
- martyrdom,
- penal servitude,
- picketing,
- quarantine,
- railriding,
- remand,
- rock pile,
- siege,
- strappado,
- tar-and-feathering,
- term of imprisonment,
- the gantlet,
- torment,
- torture
- captivity
collapse
- 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" related words >
- absolutism,
- bond service,
- bondage,
- close arrest,
- confinement,
- control,
- custody,
- debt slavery,
- deprivation of freedom,
- detention,
- disenfranchisement,
- disfranchisement,
- domination,
- durance,
- durance vile,
- duress,
- enslavement,
- enthrallment,
- feudalism,
- feudality,
- helotism,
- helotry,
- house arrest,
- immuration,
- immurement,
- imprisonment,
- incarceration,
- indentureship,
- internment,
- jailing,
- peonage,
- restraint,
- serfdom,
- serfhood,
- servility,
- servitude,
- slavery,
- subjection,
- subjugation,
- term of imprisonment,
- thrall,
- thralldom,
- tyranny,
- vassalage,
- villenage
- beef,
- bitch,
- boycott,
- challenge,
- complaint,
- compunction,
- confinement,
- demonstration,
- demur,
- demurrer,
- dismemberment,
- estrapade,
- exception,
- expostulation,
- galleys,
- grievance,
- grievance committee,
- hard labor,
- howl,
- impalement,
- imprisonment,
- incarceration,
- indignation meeting,
- jailing,
- keelhauling,
- kick,
- march,
- martyrdom,
- nonviolent protest,
- objection,
- penal servitude,
- protest,
- protest demonstration,
- protestation,
- qualm,
- railriding,
- rally,
- remonstrance,
- remonstration,
- rock pile,
- scruple,
- sit-in,
- squawk,
- strappado,
- strike,
- tar-and-feathering,
- teach-in,
- the gantlet,
- torment,
- torture
- gauntlet
collapse
- a form of punishment in which a person is forced to run between two lines of men facing each other and armed with clubs or whips to beat the victim
- a glove with long sleeve
- a glove of armored leather; protects the hand
- to offer or accept a challenge; "threw down the gauntlet"; "took up the gauntlet" related words >
- battle cry,
- bid to combat,
- brass knuckles,
- cesta,
- cestus,
- challenge,
- confinement,
- dare,
- defi,
- defy,
- dismemberment,
- double dare,
- estrapade,
- gage,
- gage of battle,
- galleys,
- glove,
- handwear,
- hard labor,
- impalement,
- imprisonment,
- incarceration,
- jailing,
- keelhauling,
- kid gloves,
- kids,
- martyrdom,
- mittens,
- mitts,
- mousquetaire gloves,
- mousquetaires,
- muff,
- penal servitude,
- picketing,
- railriding,
- rebel yell,
- rock pile,
- strappado,
- tar-and-feathering,
- the gantlet,
- torment,
- torture,
- war cry,
- war whoop
- gantlet
collapse
- the convergence of two parallel railroad tracks in a narrow place; the inner rails cross and run parallel and then diverge so a train remains on its own tracks at all times related words >
- battle cry,
- bid to combat,
- brass knuckles,
- cesta,
- cestus,
- challenge,
- confinement,
- dare,
- defi,
- defy,
- dismemberment,
- double dare,
- estrapade,
- gage,
- gage of battle,
- galleys,
- gauntlet,
- glove,
- handwear,
- hard labor,
- impalement,
- imprisonment,
- incarceration,
- jailing,
- keelhauling,
- kid gloves,
- kids,
- martyrdom,
- mittens,
- mitts,
- mousquetaire gloves,
- mousquetaires,
- muff,
- penal servitude,
- picketing,
- railriding,
- rebel yell,
- rock pile,
- strappado,
- tar-and-feathering,
- the gantlet,
- torment,
- torture,
- war cry,
- war whoop
- martyrdom
collapse
- death that is imposed because of the person's adherence of a religious faith or cause related words >
- agony,
- anguish,
- atrocious pain,
- bane,
- blood,
- bloodletting,
- bloodshed,
- braining,
- clawing,
- confinement,
- cruciation,
- crucifixion,
- dealing death,
- destruction,
- destruction of life,
- dismemberment,
- dispatch,
- estrapade,
- euthanasia,
- excruciation,
- execution,
- extermination,
- flow of blood,
- galleys,
- gore,
- hard labor,
- hell,
- hell upon earth,
- holocaust,
- horror,
- immolation,
- impalement,
- imprisonment,
- incarceration,
- jailing,
- keelhauling,
- kill,
- killing,
- laceration,
- lancination,
- lapidation,
- martyrization,
- mercy killing,
- nightmare,
- passion,
- penal servitude,
- persecution,
- picketing,
- poisoning,
- purgatory,
- rack,
- railriding,
- ritual killing,
- ritual murder,
- rock pile,
- sacrifice,
- shooting,
- slaughter,
- slaying,
- stoning,
- strappado,
- taking of life,
- tar-and-feathering,
- the gantlet,
- torment,
- torture
- confinement
collapse
- the act of restraining of a person's liberty by confining them
- the state of being confined; "he was held in confinement" related words >
- accouchement,
- beleaguerment,
- besetment,
- birth,
- birth throes,
- birthing,
- blessed event,
- blockade,
- blockading,
- boundary,
- bounds,
- childbearing,
- childbed,
- childbirth,
- circumscription,
- closeness,
- constraint,
- continence,
- cordoning,
- cramp,
- cramping,
- crowdedness,
- delivery,
- discipline,
- dismemberment,
- enclosure,
- envelopment,
- estrapade,
- galleys,
- genesis,
- giving birth,
- hair,
- hairbreadth,
- hairsbreadth,
- hard labor,
- hatching,
- having a baby,
- immurement,
- impalement,
- imprisonment,
- incapaciousness,
- incarceration,
- inclusion,
- incommodiousness,
- jailing,
- keelhauling,
- labor,
- limit,
- limitation,
- martyrdom,
- moderation,
- multiparity,
- narrow gauge,
- narrowness,
- nascency,
- nativity,
- nearness,
- parturition,
- penal servitude,
- picketing,
- prescription,
- proscription,
- qualification,
- quarantine,
- railriding,
- restrain,
- restraint,
- restrictedness,
- restriction,
- rock pile,
- siege,
- slenderness,
- stint,
- straitness,
- strappado,
- strictness,
- tar-and-feathering,
- the Nativity,
- the gantlet,
- the stork,
- tight squeeze,
- tightness,
- torment,
- torture,
- travail
- detention
collapse
- a punishment in which a student must stay at school after others have gone home; "the detention of tardy pupils"
- a state of being confined (usually for a short time); "his detention was politically motivated"; "the prisoner is on hold"; "he is in the custody of police" related words >
- afterthought,
- apprehension,
- arrest,
- arrestation,
- arrestment,
- bind,
- block,
- blockage,
- blocking,
- bureaucratic delay,
- captivity,
- check,
- clogging,
- close arrest,
- closing up,
- closure,
- confinement,
- constriction,
- cramp,
- custody,
- deceleration,
- delay,
- delayage,
- delayed reaction,
- detainment,
- double take,
- drag,
- dragging,
- durance,
- durance vile,
- duress,
- ease-off,
- ease-up,
- fixation,
- flagging,
- foot-dragging,
- halt,
- hampering,
- hang-up,
- hindering,
- hindrance,
- holdback,
- holdup,
- house arrest,
- immuration,
- immurement,
- impediment,
- imprisonment,
- incarceration,
- inhibition,
- interference,
- interim,
- internment,
- interruption,
- jailing,
- jam,
- lag,
- lagging,
- let,
- letdown,
- letup,
- logjam,
- minus acceleration,
- moratorium,
- nab,
- negativism,
- nuisance value,
- obstruction,
- obstructionism,
- occlusion,
- opposition,
- paperasserie,
- pause,
- pickup,
- pinch,
- red tape,
- red-tapeism,
- red-tapery,
- repression,
- reprieve,
- resistance,
- respite,
- restraint,
- restriction,
- retardance,
- retardation,
- retardment,
- setback,
- slack-up,
- slackening,
- slow-up,
- slowdown,
- slowing,
- slowing down,
- slowness,
- slowup,
- squeeze,
- stay,
- stay of execution,
- stop,
- stoppage,
- stranglehold,
- stricture,
- suppression,
- suspension,
- term of imprisonment,
- tie-up,
- time lag,
- wait
- duress
collapse
- compulsory force or threat; "confessed under duress" related words >
- amperage,
- argumentum baculinum,
- armipotence,
- authority,
- beef,
- black power,
- brute force,
- captivity,
- charge,
- charisma,
- close arrest,
- clout,
- coercion,
- cogence,
- cogency,
- compulsion,
- compulsoriness,
- confinement,
- constraint,
- detention,
- dint,
- drive,
- durance,
- durance vile,
- effect,
- effectiveness,
- effectuality,
- energy,
- flower power,
- force,
- force majeure,
- forcefulness,
- full blast,
- full force,
- high pressure,
- house arrest,
- immuration,
- immurement,
- imprisonment,
- incarceration,
- influence,
- internment,
- intimidation,
- jailing,
- main force,
- main strength,
- mana,
- mandatedness,
- mandatoriness,
- might,
- might and main,
- mightiness,
- moxie,
- muscle power,
- necessariness,
- necessitation,
- necessitude,
- necessity,
- obligation,
- obligatoriness,
- obligement,
- pizzazz,
- poop,
- potence,
- potency,
- potentiality,
- power,
- power pack,
- power structure,
- power struggle,
- powerfulness,
- prepotency,
- pressure,
- productiveness,
- productivity,
- puissance,
- pull,
- punch,
- push,
- restraint,
- sinew,
- steam,
- strength,
- strong arm,
- strong-arm tactics,
- superiority,
- superpower,
- term of imprisonment,
- the big stick,
- the bludgeon,
- the club,
- the jackboot,
- the mailed fist,
- the strong arm,
- the sword,
- threat,
- throughout,
- validity,
- vehemence,
- vigor,
- vim,
- violence,
- virility,
- virtue,
- virulence,
- vitality,
- wattage,
- weight
- torture
collapse
- the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason; "it required unnatural torturing to extract a confession"
- unbearable physical pain
- subject to torture; "The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible" related words >
- Procrustean bed,
- abuse,
- afflict,
- aggrieve,
- agonize,
- agonizingness,
- agony,
- ail,
- anguish,
- atrocious pain,
- bed of Procrustes,
- befoul,
- bewitch,
- bias,
- bite,
- blight,
- bloody,
- boot,
- burn,
- chafe,
- claw,
- clawing,
- color,
- condemn,
- confinement,
- contort,
- convulse,
- corrupt,
- cruciation,
- crucifixion,
- crucify,
- curse,
- cut,
- damage,
- defile,
- deprave,
- desolate,
- desolateness,
- desolation,
- despoil,
- destroy,
- disadvantage,
- dismember,
- dismemberment,
- disserve,
- distort,
- distress,
- do a mischief,
- do evil,
- do ill,
- do wrong,
- do wrong by,
- doom,
- draw and quarter,
- envenom,
- estrapade,
- excruciate,
- excruciatingness,
- excruciation,
- fester,
- fret,
- gall,
- galleys,
- garble,
- get into trouble,
- get one wrong,
- get wrong,
- give pain,
- gloss,
- gnaw,
- grate,
- grill,
- grind,
- gripe,
- harass,
- hard labor,
- harm,
- harrow,
- heartbreak,
- heartsickness,
- hell,
- hell upon earth,
- hex,
- holocaust,
- horror,
- hurt,
- impair,
- impale,
- impalement,
- imprisonment,
- incarceration,
- infect,
- inflame,
- inflict pain,
- injure,
- iron heel,
- irritate,
- jailing,
- jinx,
- keelhaul,
- keelhauling,
- kill by inches,
- lacerate,
- laceration,
- lancinate,
- lancination,
- macerate,
- maim,
- maltreat,
- mangle,
- martyr,
- martyrdom,
- martyrization,
- martyrize,
- menace,
- misapply,
- misapprehend,
- miscite,
- misconceive,
- misconstrue,
- misdeem,
- misdirect,
- misexplain,
- misexplicate,
- misexpound,
- misinterpret,
- misjudge,
- misquote,
- misread,
- misrender,
- misrepresent,
- misshape,
- mistake,
- mistranslate,
- mistreat,
- misunderstand,
- misuse,
- molest,
- mutilate,
- nightmare,
- nip,
- oppress,
- outrage,
- pain,
- passion,
- penal servitude,
- persecute,
- persecution,
- pervert,
- picket,
- picketing,
- pierce,
- pinch,
- play havoc with,
- play hob with,
- poison,
- pollute,
- prejudice,
- prick,
- prolong the agony,
- punish,
- purgatory,
- put to torture,
- rack,
- railriding,
- rankle,
- rasp,
- rip,
- rock pile,
- rub,
- savage,
- scarify,
- scarpines,
- scathe,
- screw,
- slant,
- smite,
- squeeze,
- stab,
- sting,
- strain,
- strain the sense,
- strappado,
- taint,
- tar and feather,
- tar-and-feathering,
- the gantlet,
- threaten,
- thumbscrew,
- torment,
- tormentingness,
- torturousness,
- try,
- tweak,
- twist,
- twist the words,
- varnish,
- violate,
- warp,
- wheel,
- wind,
- wound,
- wreak havoc on,
- wrench,
- wring,
- wrong
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