Jails synonyms and antonyms

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immures
To entomb in a wall
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lags
To imprison
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incarcerates
To imprison; jail
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imprisons
To put in or as if in prison; confine.
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sentences
To sentence is defined as to give someone a punishment.
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pens
To write (an article, a book, etc.).
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keeps
To enter (accounts, records, etc.) in a book.
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clinks
To make a clinking sound; to make a sound of metal on metal or glass on glass; to strike materials such as metal or glass against one another.
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cans
Used to indicate possibility or probability:
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books
To record in a book; list
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arrests
To catch and keep (one's attention, sight, etc.)
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detains
To keep in custody or confinement:
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impounds
To gather and enclose (water) for irrigation, etc.
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confines
To keep within limits; restrict
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locks
To pass through a lock or locks in a waterway.
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interns
(Intransitive) To work as an intern. Usually with little or no pay or other legal prerogatives of employment, for the purpose of furthering a program of education.
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pokies
A jail or prison.
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tanks
(Slang) A jail or jail cell.
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coops
(Slang) A jail or prison.
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pounds
(Archaic) A prison.
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reformatories
A prison, especially one for juveniles; a reform school.
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stockades
(Colloquial) a military prison
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stirs
Prison.
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jugs
(Slang) A jail.
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limbos
(By extension, since the 16th century) Any in-between place, state or condition of neglect or oblivion which results in an unresolved status, delay or deadlock.
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cages
(--- Sports) A goal, as in hockey or soccer, made of a net attached to a frame.
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cells
A storm cell.
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penitentiaries
Penitentiary is defined as a prison, or a tribunal in the Roman Catholic Church.
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prisons
The definition of a prison is a building comprised of different cells or locked rooms designed to house prisoners who are sentenced to a correctional institution for breaking laws.
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houses-of-correction
A residential penitentiary facility, an institution where criminals or wayward people (notably youth) are sent to have their ways 'corrected' trough a penal regime officially intended to reeducate them
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joints
The point where two components of a structure join, but are still able to rotate.
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slammers
(Slang) A prison or jail
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dungeons
A dark underground cell, vault, or prison
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lockups
(Slang) A jail, prison.
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coolers
(Slang) A jail.
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goals
A point scored in a game as a result of placing the object into the goal.
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liberates (antonym)
To free; to release from restraint or bondage; to set at liberty; to manumit; to disengage.
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frees (antonym)
To remove obstructions or entanglements from; clear:
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releases (antonym)
Release is defined as to set free or to relieve.
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acquits (antonym)
(Followed by “of”, formerly by “from”) To set free, release or discharge from an obligation, duty, liability, burden, or from an accusation or charge.
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discharges (antonym)
To shoot:
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freedoms (antonym)
Ease or facility of movement:
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Jails Sentence Examples

  • Then Fitz goes and jails Fred O'Connor just for spite.

  • There are also a deputy postmaster-general, chief superintendent and four superintendents of telegraphs, a chief collector of customs, three collectors and four port officers, and an inspector-general of jails.

  • I'll send you a file in a cake if Fitzgerald jails you for assault.

  • The labouring convicts are distributed among four jails and nineteen stations; the self-supporters in thirtyeight villages.

  • Each county provides for the indoor care of the poor in poor asylums and children's homes, and for local prisoners in county jails.

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