im·pris·on

[im-priz-uhn]
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

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
un·im·pris·on·a·ble, adjective
un·im·pris·oned, adjective


1. incarcerate, jail, restrain.
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imprison (ɪmˈprɪzən) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
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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