Imprisonment and Keeping

Imprisonment

Imprisonment noun - The act of confining or the state of being confined.

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Keeping and imprisonment are semantically related In some cases you can use "Keeping" instead a noun "Imprisonment".

Nearby Words: imprison, imprisoned, imprisoning

Keeping noun - Responsibility for the safety and well-being of someone or something.

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Imprisonment and keeping are semantically related in confinement topic. Sometimes you can use "Imprisonment" instead a noun "Keeping".

Nearby Words: keep, keeper

full	full imprisonment	full keeping
short	short imprisonment	short keeping
simple	simple imprisonment	simple keeping
false	false imprisonment	false keeping
Other adjectives: comfortable, illegal, secret, new, former, mere, creepy.

In World of Warcraft, two Orcs who have been rescued from imprisonment from Dunholde Keep insist on keeping their balls and chains, which they have given names to.

Source: Stockholm Syndrome
In Dwarf Fortress, this can be an effective way of keeping dwarves sentenced to imprisonment from getting too upset.

Source: Luxury Prison Suite
This episode has multiple failed analogies: First, keeping a sapient person capable of logic and reasoning against their will is imprisonment.

Source: Western Animation / Captain Planet and the Planeteers

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