Search results
- Dictionaryim·pris·on/imˈprizən/
verb
- 1. put or keep in prison or a place like a prison: "he was imprisoned for six months for contempt of court"
Powered by Oxford Dictionaries
The meaning of IMPRISON is to put in or as if in prison : confine. How to use imprison in a sentence.
to put someone in prison: be imprisoned for He was imprisoned in 1965 for attempted murder. figurative Unable to go out because of the deep snow, she felt imprisoned in her own house. Synonym. jail. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Putting people in prison. at His/Her Majesty's pleasure idiom. bang someone up. bar. behind bars idiom.
To imprison is to hold someone in a prison or jail. It can also mean to confine them elsewhere. You might imprison a classmate in a locker, for example.
verb jail, confine, detain, lock up, constrain, put away, intern, incarcerate, send down (informal), send to prison, impound, put under lock and key, immure He was imprisoned for 18 months on charges of anti-state agitation. free, release, discharge, liberate, emancipate.
Imprison definition: to confine in or as if in a prison.. See examples of IMPRISON used in a sentence.
: to put (someone) in prison. He was imprisoned for murder. He has threatened to imprison his political opponents. — sometimes used figuratively. He has a brilliant mind imprisoned in an unhealthy body. — imprisonment. /ɪm ˈprɪzn̩mənt/ noun [noncount] He was released after six months' imprisonment. sentenced to life imprisonment.
verb. If someone is imprisoned, they are locked up or kept somewhere, usually in prison as a punishment for a crime or for political opposition. The local priest was imprisoned for 18 months on charges of anti-state agitation. [be VERB -ed] Dutch colonial authorities imprisoned him for his part in the independence movement. [VERB noun]
verb. /ɪmˈprɪzn/ [often passive] Verb Forms. to put somebody in a prison or another place from which they cannot escape synonym jail. be imprisoned (for something) They were imprisoned for a crime they didn't commit. be imprisoned (+ adv./prep.) (figurative) I feel imprisoned in my own home. Collocations Criminal justice. Extra Examples.
IMPRISON definition: to put someone in prison or keep them as a prisoner: . Learn more.
imprison meaning, definition, what is imprison: to put someone in prison or to keep them...: Learn more.
