to imprison
131
4.2
- verb
- /ɪmˈprɪzən/
- Formal
- Even now, my voice is reaching millions throughout the world... millions of despairing men, women and little children... victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people.
- arrested and imprisoned
- imprisoned inmates
- imprisoned women
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Watch on YouTubeThey start imprisoning people for asking basic questions.
- They start imprisoning people for asking basic questions.
- Gelimer, Hildrek's cousin and heir, seized power and imprisoned the ex king.
- Gellimer, Hildrek's cousin and heir, seized power and imprisoned the ex king.
- He was, he was, he was killing Christians and he was imprisoning Christians.
- A lot of these people end up in concentration camps, which just means a place where they are detained, imprisoned without trial.
- And there is this sort of tale from history where British soldiers were imprisoned in this prison cell, which was the size of three double beds.
- But I think what's more insidious here is he's saying that he will imprison and jail donors to his opponent.
- The government said those people had to be imprisoned because they were dangerous, but not the kind of danger that they could prove in a trial.
- Most businesses imprison the person who creates it.
- But also, I don't want to imprison anyone.
- Let's try to persuade rather than just, you know, burn and and imprison or things like that.
- No, we will never let you little kids go as Black Panther because we want you to always be imprisoned to the past.
- It's a tool to draw you in and and kind of using things against you and imprison you and feel really trapped.
Examples
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Most were starved to death, murdered in cold blood, or imprisoned without shelter.
Academic text (2011) -
The majority of the women were imprisoned for terms of less than three months.
Academic text (1993) -
What was he imprisoned for?
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The project leader was blamed for the incident and imprisoned.
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And soon after, he was imprisoned for assaulting his boss at work.
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In the past, Bao would likely have been imprisoned without a chance to leave the country.
Academic text (1999) -
A number of political prisoners, imprisoned as part of the KCK trial, were released during the process.
Academic text (2017) -
Then, one day, you wake up and find you've been imprisoned for your beliefs.
Fiction book (1994) -
Falsely accused of stealing as a young man, he was imprisoned but escaped through his own ingenuity.
Academic text (1990) -
He was imprisoned for stealing a car and received a five-year sentence.
Synonyms
525
4.0
Put someone or something in a place where they cannot leave, for example a jail
147
5.8
To lock someone in prison or a secure place
90
8.4
To put someone in prison and keep them there
64
9.9
To put someone in prison as punishment
31
4.3
Send a person to prison as punishment
8
2.1
To put someone in prison as punishment
1
9.9
To lock someone inside a room or building against their will
1
9.9
To put someone in jail
Put someone in prison and never let them out
To put someone in jail
Antonyms
How Confined
- Formal
90
8.4
- Formal
131
4.2
525
4.0
111
4.2
- Formal
197
5.9
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Imprison comes from the parts im- meaning 'in' and prison meaning 'a place to hold people'. So to imprison someone is to put them 'in' a prison or keep them locked up.