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imprison

verb

1 imprison

Lock up or confine, in or as in a jail:
— The suspects were imprisoned without trial.

synonyms: gaol, immure, incarcerate, jail, jug, lag, put away, put behind bars, remand.

Roget 229: circumscribe, limit, bound, confine, inclose; surround etc. 227; compass about; imprison etc. (restrain) 751; hedge in, ... show more

Roget 751: restrain, check; put under restraint, lay under restraint; enthral, enthrall, inthral, inthrall, bethral, bethrall; restrict; debar etc. ... show more

Dutch: gevangenzetten, inmetselen, opsluiten

2 imprison

Confine as if in a prison.


Moby thesaurus: bastille, beleaguer, beset, besiege, blockade, bolt in, bound, box in, cage, cast in prison, chamber, check, circumscribe, clap in jail, clap up, close in, compass, confine, constrain, contain ... show more.

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