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jailing
CIDE DICTIONARY
jailing, n.
The act or process of putting someone in prison or in jail as a lawful punishment. [WordNet 1.5]
THESAURUS
jailing
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
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