imprison
Use Imprison in a sentence
ən verb (used with object)
to confine in or as if in a prison.
Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English enprisonen < Old French enprisoner, equivalent to en- en-1 + prison prison + -er infinitive suffix
1250–1300; Middle English enprisonen < Old French enprisoner, equivalent to en- en-1 + prison prison + -er infinitive suffix
Related forms
im·pris·on·a·ble, adjective
im·pris·on·er, noun
im·pris·on·ment, noun
re·im·pris·on, verb (used with object)
re·im·pris·on·ment, noun
Synonyms
1. incarcerate, jail, restrain.
1. incarcerate, jail, restrain.
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| —vb | |
| (tr) to confine in or as if in prison | |
| im'prisoner | |
| —n | |
| im'prisonment | |
| —n | |
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Example sentences
Historians may make the past legible but in doing so they also imprison it.
The government seeks to imprison him for twelve to fifteen years.
These conventions may once have made sense, but today they imprison poetry in an intellectual ghetto.
He was sentenced to a seventy-six month term of imprison ment.
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