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SOLITARY CONFINEMENT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Confinement of a prisoner in isolation from other prisoners
Example:
he was held in solitary
Synonyms:
solitary; solitary confinement
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("solitary confinement" is a kind of...):
confinement (the state of being confined)