solitary confinement
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- noun
- /ˈsɑːləˌtɛri kənˈfaɪnmənt/
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- We put people into solitary confinement with no human contact other than the prison guards for decades.
- held in solitary confinement
- solitary confinement and torture
I was still in a cage, and a lot of that cage time was in solitary confinement, supposedly for my own safety.
- I was still in a cage, and a lot of that cage time was in solitary confinement, supposedly for my own safety.
- And I sat there in amazement that I could finally see the moon after so many years in solitary confinement.
- When I was in solitary, solitary confinement is torture.
- And he told about my son being raped in solitary confinement by another young person.
- I said what you're doing with Tommy is you're you've, you've sort of put him in solitary confinement for his views and all that sort of stuff.
- OK, people ask me what is the best thing about having been in solitary confinement in the Islamic in the Islamic Republic of Iran?
- Like even if someone in solitary confinement, shout out to Ross Albrecht, can still write letters to people, receive information, you know, read a book or something.
- Like even if someone in solitary confinement, shout out to Ross Ulbricht, can still write letters to people, receive information, you know, read a book or something.
Examples
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During his years in the prison camps, Zhang had been put into solitary confinement five times.
Fiction book (1992) -
But why was he placed in solitary confinement?
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You found yourself in jail, in solitary confinement for four years.
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I was in solitary confinement.
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Solitary confinement makes you think about your family, who your friends really are, who really loves you.
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She's been in solitary confinement for over a month.
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Ordinarily you would be kept in solitary confinement for an indefinite period.
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After a week in solitary confinement, he was summoned to an interrogation.
Fiction book (1993) -
Just two years after being exonerated for unjust charges, Bradley now finds himself held in solitary confinement and facing a possible death sentence.
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After being found guilty, he was sentenced to a year in solitary confinement to reflect on his actions.
Synonyms
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A state of being alone and cut off from other people physically or emotionally
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A state of being kept in a small closed space and unable to move freely
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A state of being private and away from other people
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A prison cell where guards keep a person alone from other prisoners
Antonyms
How Isolated
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- Offensive
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- Literature
Surface Forms
Morphology
Both constituents are directly meaningful: 'solitary' = alone and 'confinement' = being confined or imprisoned. The compound literally denotes 'being confined alone' (isolation of a prisoner), a transparent compositional meaning found across many languages, so a B1 learner who knows the words would readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Solitary confinement comes from the image of a prisoner locked alone in a small cell. Here solitary means 'alone' and confinement means 'being kept in a place', so the phrase now means keeping someone away from all other prisoners.