imprison
verb (used with object)
Origin of imprison
Synonyms for imprison
Related Words for imprison
incarcerate, apprehend, detain, jail, commit, hold, remand, nab, constrain, closet, immure, ice, keep, trammel, intern, restrain, stockade, pen, circumscribe, curbExamples from the Web for imprison
Contemporary Examples of imprison
Elsewhere, she tells her inamorata, “It does not matter if you elude my arms/my dear, when thought alone can imprison you.”
They voted to imprison people convicted of being gay for two years and six months.
Why did it take so long to imprison the men responsible for this terrible crime?
It was ‘us vs. them,’ and ‘we need to kill or imprison them all.’
But the villagers, headed by the chief Manyenga, takes his money and imprison him.
Historical Examples of imprison
And then, too, what fine jokers are those fellows who imprison art in a toy-box!
The Fat and the ThinEmile Zola
A man may arrest his own slave, and he may also imprison for safe-keeping the runaway slave of a friend.
LawsPlato
If they imprison you for resisting their tyrannies, others will take your place.
The Eternal CityHall Caine
Who has the right to imprison and assign the terms and conditions to the imprisoned?
The Prison Chaplaincy, And Its ExperiencesHosea Quinby
It is in self-seeking and advancement that we narrow our faculties and imprison our natures.
A Day's RideCharles James Lever