imprison

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verb

1. lock up or confine, in or as in a jail (Freq. 3)
- The suspects were imprisoned without trial
- the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life
• Syn:
incarcerate, lag, immure, put behind bars, jail,
jug, gaol, put away, remand
• Derivationally related forms:
remand (for: remand), gaoler (for: gaol), gaol (for: gaol), jailer (for: jail), jailor (for: jail), jail (for: jail), immurement (for: immure), incarceration (for: incarcerate), imprisonment
• Topics:
law, jurisprudence
• Hypernyms:
confine, detain
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
- They want to imprison the prisoners
2. confine as if in a prison (Freq. 1)
- His daughters are virtually imprisoned in their own house; he does not let them go out without a chaperone
• Derivationally related forms:
imprisonment
• Hypernyms:
confine, detain
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody