imprison
verb (used with object)
to confine in or as if in a prison.
imprisoned
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past participleof imprison.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof imprison.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
imprisonverb (used with object)to confine in or as if in a prison.
Example Sentences
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Fleeing in horror from the Revolution he had hoped to lead, he was captured and imprisoned, “crushed,” as Gouverneur Morris, America’s minister to France, put it, “by the wheel he set in motion.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
They have been imprisoned at the Baker County Detention Center and denied bail ever since.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
To be eligible, a person has to have been imprisoned as a result of a conviction that was later vacated by a court.
From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2026
Chávez had been imprisoned in June 2023 over her alleged role in Castillo's plan to dissolve congress.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
In 1963 alone, another fifteen thousand were imprisoned, and one thousand desegregation protests occurred across the region, in more than one hundred cities.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
