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Internment

Confinement within narrow limits, -- as of foreign troops, to the interior of a country.

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Captivity 76% connected

The state of being a captive or a prisoner.

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Confinement 76% connected

Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion.

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Immurement 76% connected

The act iif immuring, or the state of being immured; imprsonment.

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Incarceration 76% connected

The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment.

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Seizure 76% connected

The act of seizing, or the state of being seized; sudden and violent grasp or gripe; a taking into possession; as, the seizure of a thief, a property…

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Custody 76% connected

A keeping or guarding; care, watch, inspection, for keeping, preservation, or security.

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Intern 74% connected

Internal.

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Intern 74% connected

Internal.

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Impounding 92% connected

of Impound

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Poundage 92% connected

A sum deducted from a pound, or a certain sum paid for each pound; a commission.

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Alien noun · 78% connection

A foreigner; one owing allegiance, or belonging, to another country; a foreign-born resident of a country in which he does not possess…

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Coarctation noun · 78% connection

Confinement to a narrow space.

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Colonialism noun · 78% connection

exploitation by a stronger country of weaker one; the use of the weaker country's resources to strengthen and enrich the stronger coun…

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Compass noun · 78% connection

Moderate bounds, limits of truth; moderation; due limits; -- used with within.

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Country adjective · 78% connection

Pertaining to the regions remote from a city; rural; rustic; as, a country life; a country town; the country party, as opposed to city.

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Defile noun · 78% connection

Any narrow passage or gorge in which troops can march only in a file, or with a narrow front; a long, narrow pass between hills, rocks…

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Domestic adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to a nation considered as a family or home, or to one's own country; intestine; not foreign; as, foreign wars and dom…

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Entogastric adjective · 78% connection

Pertaining to the interior of the stomach; -- applied to a mode of budding from the interior of the gastric cavity, in certain hydroid…

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Envoy noun · 78% connection

One dispatched upon an errand or mission; a messenger; esp., a person deputed by a sovereign or a government to negotiate a treaty, or…

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Exchange noun · 78% connection

The process of setting accounts or debts between parties residing at a distance from each other, without the intervention of money, by…

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Exotic adjective · 78% connection

Introduced from a foreign country; not native; extraneous; foreign; as, an exotic plant; an exotic term or word.

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Exterritorial adjective · 78% connection

Beyond the territorial limits; foreign to, or exempt from, the territorial jurisdiction.

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Extraprofessional adjective · 78% connection

Foreign to a profession; not within the ordinary limits of professional duty or business.

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Foreign adjective · 78% connection

Not native or belonging to a certain country; born in or belonging to another country, nation, sovereignty, or locality; as, a foreign…

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Foreigner noun · 78% connection

A person belonging to or owning allegiance to a foreign country; one not native in the country or jurisdiction under consideration, or…

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Frontier noun · 78% connection

That part of a country which fronts or faces another country or an unsettled region; the marches; the border, confine, or extreme part…

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Hold noun · 78% connection

A place of confinement; a prison; confinement; custody; guard.

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Import verb · 78% connection

To bring in from abroad; to introduce from without; especially, to bring (wares or merchandise) into a place or country from a foreign…

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