A prison; a place for the confinement of debtors and criminals.
Word of the Day: Catachrestical
To imprison; to confine in prison.
A place of confinement, especially for minor offenses or provisional imprisonment; a jail.
A judicial process for clearing jails of criminals, by trial and condemnation or acquittal.
Prison Roget’s Thesaurus §752
N. prison, prison house, jail, gaol, cage, coop, den, cell, stronghold, fortress, keep, donjon, dungeon, bastille, oubliette, bridewell, house of correction, hulks, tollbooth, panopticon, penitentiary, guardroom, lockup, hold, round house, watch house, station house, sponging house, station, house of detention, black hole, pen, fold, pound, inclosure, isolation (exclusion) 893, penal settlement, penal colony, bilboes, stocks, limbo, quod*, calaboose, chauki, choky, thana, workhouse, newgate, fleet, marshalsea, king's (or queen's) bench, bond, bandage, irons, pinion, gyve, fetter, shackle, trammel, manacle, handcuff, straight jacket, strait jacket, strait-jacket, strait-waistcoat, hopples, vice, vise, yoke, collar, halter, harness, muzzle, gag, bit, brake, curb, snaffle, bridle, rein, reins, bearing rein, martingale, leading string, tether, picket, band, guy, chain, cord, cavesson, hackamore, headstall, jaquima, lines, ribbons, bolt, deadbolt, bar, lock, police lock, combination lock, padlock, rail, wall, stone wall, paling, palisade, fence, picket fence, barbed wire fence, cyclone fence, stockade fence, chain-link fence, barrier, barricade, drag
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