durance

Noun

Meaning

Continuance; duration. See Endurance.

Imprisonment; restraint of the person; custody by a jailer; duress. Shak.

A stout cloth stuff, formerly made in imitation of buff leather and used for garments; a sort of tammy or everlasting.

In modern manufacture, a worsted of one color used for window blinds and similar purposes.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

imprisonment custody captivity confinement detention incarceration remand lockup prison slavery arrest jail restraint constraint internment
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Antonyms

liberty bliss release emancipation advantage freedom
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Hypernyms

imprisonment captivity incarceration immurement

Anagrams

uncared dauncer unraced

Examples

All of these canals took their water from the Durance. Source: Internet

Hannibal evaded this force and by an unknown route reached (the Isère or the Durance ) at the foot of the Alps in autumn. Source: Internet

With the plethora of cameos featured on The CW's "Crisis on Infinite Earths" crossover, including alumni Tom Welling and Erica Durance, fans might be asking: where was Michael Rosenbaum, Lex Luthor? Source: Internet

Moody (2007), 113 Meeting Dorothy Shakespear, Personae In Durance I am homesick after mine own kind, Oh I know that there are folk about me, friendly faces, But I am homesick after mine own kind. Source: Internet

Durance describes Lois as "sassy and fiercely independent". Source: Internet

Shane Durance and Dr Zanker tend to a patient. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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