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Another word for imprison

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imprison

v.

jail, confine, incarcerate, lock up, coop up, immure, impound, detain, keep in, hold, intern, circumscribe, shut in, bottle up, lock in, bolt in, rail in, box in, fence in, cage, send to prison, throw in jail, keep as captive, hold as hostage, enclose, keep in custody, hold captive, put behind bars, commit, remand, remit, commit to an institution, institutionalize, put away*, slap in the can*, dress in steel*, lay in lavender*, clap under hatches*, send up*, send up the river*; see also enclose 1.

Antonyms free*, liberate, release.

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Another word for imprison

verb

To put in jail:
confine, detain, immure, incarcerate, intern, jail, lock (up). See free
To enclose so as to hinder or prohibit escape:
closet, confine, shut up. See free

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1606) was alleged to have been one of the Gowrie conspirators and to have arranged to imprison the king in Fast Castle.
The second arrangement enables any particular engine to enter or leave without disturbing the other; but on the other hand an accident to the turn-table may temporarily imprison the whole of them.
They alone might remain seated in a king's presence, and had power to try and even to imprison a king, who must appear before them at the third summons.
They then couibined with the majority of the council and the discontented Catholics to remove the protector from office and imprison him in the Tower (October).
To which he refused to agree; and consequently the Saxon troops withdrew from the imperial army, a proceeding which led the chagrined emperor to seize and imprison Sch6ning in July 1692.

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