Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun life_imprisonment

1 sense of life imprisonment

Sense 1
life imprisonment -- (a sentence of imprisonment until death)
       => captivity, imprisonment, incarceration, immurement -- (the state of being imprisoned; "he was held in captivity until he died"; "the imprisonment of captured soldiers"; "his ignominious incarceration in the local jail"; "he practiced the immurement of his enemies in the castle dungeon")