Imprison
[ɪm'prɪz(ə)n] or [ɪm'prɪzn]
Definition
(verb.) 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'.
(verb.) 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'.
Inputed by Cathleen--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To put in prison or jail; To arrest and detain in custody; to confine.
(v. t.) To limit, restrain, or confine in any way.
Typist: Mabel
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Incarcerate, immure, impound, confine, commit, shut up.
Typist: Vern
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Immure, incarcerate, shut_up, confine
ANT:Free, liberate, open, set_free
Editor: Nettie
Definition
v.t. to put in prison: to shut up: to confine or restrain.—n. Impris′onment the act of imprisoning or state of being imprisoned: confinement or restraint.
Edited by Donnie
Examples
- Be it so; drag me away--I return; confine me, imprison me, still I escape, and come here. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I was also directed to handle rebels within our lines without gloves, to imprison them, or to expel them from their homes and from our lines. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- You have been brought there to personate someone, and the real person is imprisoned in this chamber. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- And if any person compounds with the hundred for less than this penalty, he is to be imprisoned for five years; and any other person may prosecute. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- I have been here three days, continued Kantos Kan, but I have not yet found where Dejah Thoris is imprisoned. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- He lay, for the most part, in a quiet stupor; for the laws of a powerful and well-knit frame would not at once release the imprisoned spirit. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Shortly he printed another from the same source and was imprisoned three months for his pains. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- All closely imprisoned forces rend and destroy. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Could it be possible that the sense of unreality in which he felt himself imprisoned had communicated itself to his wife? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Do you know that I am the man whom you have been imprisoning and robbing? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Her mother was guiltless of imprisoning her in the Asylum. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- In the can system the water is frozen from all four sides to the center, and imprisons in the center any air bubbles or impurities that may exist in the water. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
Editor: Nicolas