Being in captivity.

synoniemen: captive, confined, jailed.

Roget 751: restrained, constrained; imprisoned etc. v.; pent up; jammed in, wedged in; under lock and key, under restraint, under hatches; in swaddling clothes; on parole; in custody, doing time etc. (prisoner) 754; cohibitive^†; coactive etc. (compulsory) 744^†.    stiff, restringent^†, strait-laced, hidebound, barkbound^†.    ice bound, wind bound, weather bound; cabined cribbed confined" [Macbeth]; in Lob's pound, laid by the heels.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 754: imprisoned etc. 751; in prison, in quod [Lat.], in durance vile, in limbo, in custody, doing time, in charge, in chains; under lock and key, under hatches; on parole.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 229: circumscribed etc. v.; begirt^†, lapt^†; buried in, immersed in; embosomed^†, in the bosom of, imbedded, encysted, mewed up; imprisoned etc. 751; landlocked, in a ring fence.    ... meer laten zien