Jails synonyms
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Part of speech:
To entomb in a wall
To imprison
To imprison; jail
To put in or as if in prison; confine.
To sentence is defined as to give someone a punishment.
To enter (accounts, records, etc.) in a book.
Used to indicate possibility or probability:
To record in a book; list
To catch and keep (one's attention, sight, etc.)
To keep in custody or confinement:
To gather and enclose (water) for irrigation, etc.
To keep within limits; restrict
To pass through a lock or locks in a waterway.
A jail or prison.
(Slang) A jail or jail cell.
(Slang) A jail or prison.
(Archaic) A prison.
Prison.
(Slang) A jail.
(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.
(--- Sports) A goal, as in hockey or soccer, made of a net attached to a frame.
A storm cell.
A prison
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.
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
The point where two components of a structure join, but are still able to rotate.
frees (antonym)
To remove obstructions or entanglements from; clear:
releases (antonym)
Release is defined as to set free or to relieve.
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.
discharges (antonym)
To shoot:
Find another word for jails. In this page you can discover 36 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for jails, like: immures, lags, incarcerates, imprisons, sentences, pens, keeps, clinks, cans, books and arrests.