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(n)
(chiefly US) The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment.
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A confinement in a place, especially a prison or a jail, especially as punishment for a crime.
Capital punishment, human sacrifice or life imprisonment by entombing for life or sealing behind walls.
The act of enslaving or the state of being a slave; bondage
One who has been captured or is otherwise confined.
The act of confining or the state of being confined.
A person incarcerated in a prison, while on trial or serving a sentence.
(countable) A temporary state of custody or confinement.
An act of capturing; a seizing by force or stratagem.
(adj)
Having been kidnapped; having become the victim of an abduction
An institution or social practice of owning human beings as property, especially for use as forced laborers.
The state of being enslaved or the practice of slavery.
The act of impounding.
The legal right to take care of something or somebody, especially children.
A hold or way of holding, particularly with the hand.
Collectively, all the persons who live in a given house; a family including attendants, servants etc.; a domestic or family establishment.
A person, typically someone other than a family member, spouse or lover, whose company one enjoys and towards whom one feels affection.
The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events.
Of or pertaining to, or made in, Babylon or Babylonia.
(N)
a daytime soap opera, broadcast on the ITV network from 1990 to 1993.
That has been captured.
Held in custody or confinement.
Alternative spelling of thraldom. [(literary or puristic, otherwise archaic) A state of bondage, slavery, or subjugation to another person.]
The act of enthralling or the state of being enthralled
(uncountable) control or caution; reserve
The state of being imprisoned, usually without trial.
The state of being subjugated; forced control by others.
Constraint by threat.
The process or act of sequestering; a putting aside or separating.
(archaic) Imprisonment; forced confinement.
The act by which something is fettered or constricted.
Senses relating to a frame around the neck.
(uncountable) The state of being a hostage.
The condition of being imprisoned or restrained.
The state of being a slave.
The state of being enslaved.
The state or condition of being jailed; imprisonment
The condition of being detained; detention.
The condition or state of being a slave; slavery.
(uncountable) The state of being under the control of another person.
(uncountable, countable) The state of containing.
The state or condition of being in the closet (not open about one's homosexuality).
(v)
(transitive) To continue in (a course or mode of action); to not intermit or fall from; to uphold or maintain.
The state or condition of being confined; lack of space.
The state or condition of being committed; commitment.
(rare) The state or condition of an inmate.
The state of being chattel; chattel slavery.
(rare, nonstandard) The quality of being confined.
The state or condition of being a servant.
(obsolete) The state of being an inmate.
An area used for lodging; a place in which a person or thing is or can be lodged.
The state or quality of being bound.
The state of being subjected.
The state or quality of being constrained.
The act or condition of holding chattels; slavery.
(physics) The state of being anticonfined
The state or quality of being domesticated.
The state or property of being restrained.
The state or characteristic of being confined within actual or figurative boundaries.
The condition of being housebound.
The state of being a vassal; vassalage.
The state of being a colony.
The quality of being hidebound.
That which constrains or obliges; obligation; bond.
A state of mind involving obsession with a particular person, idea, or thing.
The condition of being a chattel.
The state or quality of being cramped.
The quality of being confining.
The state of being cult.
The state or quality of being a puppet.
The state of being contracted.
The state or condition of being fascinated.
The state of being a citizen; citizenship
Any great, strong, powerful emotion, especially romantic love or extreme hate.
The quality of being possessed.
The state of having or being a companion.
The state or quality of being slavish.
The state or quality of being submissive.
The state or condition of being passive; passivity.
The state of being servient.
The condition of being a vassal.
The state of being subservient.
The state or condition of being censorable.
The state of possessing something, possession.
The state of being a citizen; the status of a citizen.
The state or property of being locky.
The set of children (offspring) that a family raises.
The condition of being a creature.
The act or instance of suppressing.
The state of being transported, i.e. carried away or entranced.
clientship; the state of being a client.
The state or condition of being clingy
The state or quality of being culpable.
Alternative form of caginess. [The quality of being cagey.]
The state or quality of being consolatory.
The state of being incapacitated
The state or condition of being a client; clientship.