imprisoners
Keepers of captives
Imprisoners are those who imprison others—confining them in jail, detention, or any form of captivity.
The term applies to authorities who incarcerate lawfully and to captors who confine unlawfully: Her imprisoners kept her chained in a basement.
Figuratively, anything that traps or restricts can be an imprisoner: We become the imprisoners of our own fears.
One who seizes another
- subjugationForcing into submission
- coercionPressured compliance through threats
- dominationSupreme authority held
- tyrannyOppressive, absolute governance
confinement · suppression · bondage · enslavement · control · power · intimidation · regime
captor
One who seizes another
- subjugationForcing into submission
- coercionPressured compliance through threats
- dominationSupreme authority held
tyranny · confinement · suppression · bondage · enslavement · control · power · intimidation · regime · dictator
warden
Supervisory custodian of place
penitentiary · dungeon · cellblock · lockup · solitary · custody · sentence · bars · gulag · internment
guard
Watchful defensive attention
overseer · marshal · sheriff · constable · captain · officer · sentinel · watchman · commandant · detention
imprisonersliberators
Those who free captives
freers · emancipators · rescuers · deliverers · redeemers
imprisonersprotectors
Those who guard others
defenders · guardians · advocates · champions · liberators