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How to pronounce imprison in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms gaol, immure, incarcerate, jail, jug, lag, put away, put behind bars, remand
Type of confine, detain
Derivation imprisonment


The suspects were imprisoned without trial.
Type Words
Type of confine, detain
Derivation imprisonment


His daughters are virtually imprisoned in their own house; he does not let them go out without a chaperone.

Examples of imprison

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Continental decided it had no choice but to imprison the 50 people on the plane.
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The court, however, still found a way to imprison Zhao, convicting him of fraud.
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Beijing routinely uses the charge of subversion to imprison dissidents for years.
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They threatened to destroy his career as an engineer, and even to imprison him.
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The Sedition Act 1661 made it treason to imprison, restrain or wound the king.
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He then ordered his gendarmerie, the Carabinieri, to arrest and imprison Mussolini.
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First he goes to Johan and beseeches him not to imprison Gamelyn, for he is family.
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By Deepak Chopra Our senses imprison us in ways that are unconscious and invisible.
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She'd like to imprison Horton and destroy the dandelion and the speck that's on it.
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More examples
  • Lock up or confine, in or as in a jail; "The suspects were imprisoned without trial"; "the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life"
  • Confine as if in a prison; "His daughters are virtually imprisoned in their own house; he does not let them go out without a chaperone"
  • (imprisoned) captive: being in captivity
  • (imprisonment) putting someone in prison or in jail as lawful punishment
  • (imprisonment) the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison)
  • A prison (from Old French prisoun) is a place in which people are physically confined and, usually, deprived of a range of personal freedoms. ...
  • (Imprisonment) Incarceration is the detention of a person in jail, typically as punishment for a crime. ...
  • To put in or as if in prison; confine
  • (imprisoned) trapped and unable to escape from something.