as in captivity
the act of confining or the state of being confined
after his impoundment in the garage all weekend, the family dog was ready to frolic
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Recent Examples of impoundment
Past efforts by presidents to control federal spending through impoundment or executive orders have often been thwarted by Congress and the courts.
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A.j. Russo, Baltimore Sun, 17 Aug. 2025
The name Gathright Dam pays tribute to Thomas Gathright, the man whose land the Jackson River flooded prior to the impoundment being built.
—Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 15 Aug. 2025
This move, called impoundment, would be controversial, and its legality would likely have to be adjudicated in the courts.
—Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 1 Aug. 2025
The southeast Michigan parks operator acquired the dam to maintain the approximately 250-acre water impoundment behind it and adjoining natural areas for recreational use.
—Keith Matheny, Freep.com, 18 Apr. 2025
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A.j. Russo, Baltimore Sun, 17 Aug. 2025
The name Gathright Dam pays tribute to Thomas Gathright, the man whose land the Jackson River flooded prior to the impoundment being built.
—Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 15 Aug. 2025
This move, called impoundment, would be controversial, and its legality would likely have to be adjudicated in the courts.
—Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 1 Aug. 2025
The southeast Michigan parks operator acquired the dam to maintain the approximately 250-acre water impoundment behind it and adjoining natural areas for recreational use.
—Keith Matheny, Freep.com, 18 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for impoundment
Noun
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The law that banned whale captivity did not apply to the existing population of captive whales at Marineland, but the park had to comply with another part of the law that forbade breeding.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
2 Oct. 2025
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Advertisement During captivity Sharabi ached for his life in Be’eri—which as a kibbutz, or commune, is the original expression of the interdependence on which Israel functions.—
Eli Sharabi,
Time,
1 Oct. 2025
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Beginning with the Haitian internment in 1991, Washington seized on Guantánamo’s ambiguous sovereignty to illegally and indefinitely detain asylum-seekers.—
Miriam Pensack,
The Dial,
30 Sep. 2025
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In recent weeks, the National Park Service has removed signs referencing climate change, slavery, the internment of Japanese Americans, and the massacre of Native Americans from multiple parks and historic sites around the country.—
Outside,
Outside,
26 Sep. 2025
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Although this situation has been the hardest and darkest time in my life, good things have come out of my incarceration.—
Lauren del Valle,
CNN Money,
2 Oct. 2025
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Over the 1990s, Washington seized on that opacity to transform the base into a theater of extraterritorial mass incarceration to hold tens of thousands of Haitian and Cuban asylum-seekers fleeing political violence and economic collapse in their home countries.—
Miriam Pensack,
The Dial,
30 Sep. 2025
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Zuazo and Hernandez each were charged with one count of first-degree felony murder and two counts of unlawful imprisonment.—
Christina Hall,
Freep.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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His aggressive defense tactics—including refusing to reveal sources and challenging judicial conduct—led to his brief imprisonment and ultimately the removal of the presiding Judge, Ural Glanville.—
Hannah Parry,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Oct. 2025
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After the rapper was found not guilty of three of the counts in the federal indictment, his attorney argued that he should be sent to home confinement.—
Kevin Dolak,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Sep. 2025
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The two Tucson residents pleaded guilty in federal court in 2009, where one was sentenced to eight months in federal prison and the other to six months of home confinement and 100 hours of community service.—
John Leos,
AZCentral.com,
26 Sep. 2025
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“Impoundment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impoundment. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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