Jails synonyms

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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
A prison
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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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • There are five state penal and correctional institutions: the Indiana Boys' School (1868-1883, the House of Refuge; 1883-1903, the Reform School for Boys), at Plainfield; the Indiana Girls' School, established at Indianapolis (1873), and removed to Clermont in 1907; a woman's prison (the first in the United States, authorized in 1869 and opened in 1873 at Indianapolis), which is entirely under the control of women (as is also the Indiana Girls' School) and has a correctional department (1908), in reality a state workhouse for women, formed with a view to removing as far as possible sentenced women from the county jails; a reformatory (1897), at Jeffersonville, conducted upon a modification of the " Elmira plan," formerly the State Prison (1822), later (1860) the State Prison South, so called to distinguish it from the State Prison North (1860) at Michigan City; and the prison at Michigan City, which became the Indiana State Prison in 1897.

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