solitary confinement

Converse of object

• undergo: She was arrested and had to undergo solitary confinement.
• suffer: Social creatures who live in family groups in Brazil's forests, they suffer solitary confinement.

Preposition: for

• month: Ali was held in solitary confinement for 4 months.
• year: He was immediately put into solitary confinement for two years.
• week: He was held in solitary confinement for five weeks in deplorable conditions.
• period: Those who therefore refused to do any work were punished with solitary confinement for long periods.
• hour: Any inmate not producing the stated amount was put on a bread and water diet in solitary confinement for 12 hours.
• day: After leaving him in solitary confinement for two days, they began to torture him.

Adjective modifier

• virtual: The ` new system ' , however consisted of minimizing the contact of fellow prisoners so that they lived in virtual solitary confinement.

Preposition: with

• explanation: That all changes in 1988, when he's suddenly kidnaped and locked up in solitary confinement with no explanation.

Preposition: in

• prison: Mr Irving faces spending the Yule season in solitary confinement in a foreign prison.
• cell: This is good news however six children remain in custody, held in solitary confinement in underground cells in the military base.
• cage: For up to 20 years the macaques had lived in solitary confinement in small cages.