Imprison synonyms
Category:
Part of speech:
commit to an institution
To put in a prison or jail.
coop-up
To confine in a restricted place or situation
To set aside in a fund rather than spend as prescribed:
To detain is defined as to keep someone somewhere or cause someone to be unable to proceed.
keep-in
To stay blazing (of a fire)
To carry or support (the body or a bodily part) in a certain position:
To intern is defined as to detain and keep someone or something from moving.
To draw a figure around another figure so as to touch as many points as possible. A circle that is circumscribed around a triangle touches it at each of the triangle's three vertices.
Prevent enemy vessels of leaving an anchorage
bolt in
rail in
box-in
To enclose by drawing a box around
To put or confine in or as if in a cage.
send to prison
throw in jail
keep as captive
hold as hostage
keep in custody
hold captive
Shakespeare
To send back (a person) into legal custody, as to a jail or prison.
To send money, as in payment; pay
To place (a person) in the care of an institution.
slap in the can
dress in steel
lay in lavender
clap under hatches
send up the river
free (antonym)
Free means to release or let go.
liberate (antonym)
(Chem.) To free from combination in a compound
release (antonym)
To set free from confinement or bondage:
durance
Confinement or restraint by force; imprisonment.
immuration
Capital punishment by entombing for life.
A confinement in a place, especially a prison.
Formerly, strangulation, as in hernia.
(Place, proper) In some Christian theologies, the eternal abode or state, neither heaven nor hell, of the souls of infants or others dying in original sin but free of grievous personal sin, or, before the coming of Christ, the temporary abode or state of all holy souls after death
The definition of a restraint is something that restricts freedom or prevents someone from doing something.
Arrest is defined as the act of taking a person into custody for legal purposes.
To place in a tomb or grave; bury
(Mathematics, intransitive) To have a limit in a particular set.
mure
(Obsolete) to wall in or fortify
To hold back or keep in check; control:
To put shackles on (someone); confine with shackles.
(Intransitive, colloquial, used only in the imperative) I don't believe it!, no way!
To equip (a canal, etc.) with a lock or locks
To put into a private place for a secret interview or interrogation.
(Games) To determine the order of play by hitting or shooting a ball toward a mark, as in marbles or billiards, with the player whose ball stops closest to the mark going first.
To stew (esp. hare) in a covered earthenware container
behead (related)
convict (related)
indict (related)
persecute (related)
kidnap (related)
put on trial (related)
in-prison (related)
abduct (related)
murder (related)
deport (related)
depose (related)
Find another word for imprison. In this page you can discover 76 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for imprison, like: commit to an institution, jail, confine, incarcerate, lock up, coop-up, immure, impound, detain, keep-in and hold.