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imprison English

Meaning imprison meaning

What does imprison mean?

imprison

— verb (= incarcerate, jail, gaol) lock up or confine, in or as in a jail The suspects were imprisoned without trial the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life — verb confine as if in a prison His daughters are virtually imprisoned in their own house; he does not let them go out without a chaperone

Synonyms imprison synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as imprison?

imprison English » English

jail confine incarcerate lock up detain put in prison arrest immure gaol restrain shut up capture cage shackle seize remand put away lag constrain captivate be jailed take prisoner secure put prison put in jail put behind bars lock jug bind apprehend trammel tie tether slough shut in shut shop punish pound up penalize mure moor manacle logout lock in limit keep in prison keep in custody intern imprisonment

Topics imprison topics

What do people use imprison to talk about?
Social behavior Government Government functions Police

Arrest
Social behavior Law Punish

Imprison

Conjugation imprison conjugation

How do you conjugate imprison?

imprison · verb

Examples imprison examples

How do I use imprison in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Today, a nation ringed by walls would only imprison itself.

Movie subtitles

Initially, we need to capture and imprison her.
Even now my voice is reaching millions. Millions of despairing men, women and children, victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people.
His councillors in New Town pursue and imprison followers of the chalice.
If you imprison them, you will deprive the scientific world. of the greatest opportunity it's ever had.
Look, brother, i don't know much about this cult of yours- what's permitted, what isn't permitted- but i seriously doubt if you have the authority to imprison a man against his will.
What if we were to imprison Dona Chimene and her children?
Catch, hold, imprison!
I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven. Whatever you imprison on earth God will imprison in heaven. And whatever you set free on earth shall be set free in heaven.
Would you imprison them, would you kill them?
We had no alternative but to imprison him and his friends in orbit round the Sense-Sphere.
I should imprison you in some room wherein no light can shine and fill that room with noise!
But you imprison those who employ it privately.
Imprison their family and keep a watch.
If you intended to imprison me in the tower I'd be there now and no talk about it.
Even now my voice is reaching millions, millions of despairing men, women and children, victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people.
In that case. I'm instructed to serve official notice upon Your Majesty. that the honor of Spain requires. that you will immediately disband and imprison the Sea Hawks. or face the consequences of an open conflict between our two nations.
Catch him, imprison him!
Then imprison her, my master says.
If you imprison them, you'll deprive the scientific world.. ofthegreatestopportunity it's had.
If I am to be imprison-ed, will you, perhaps, come and see me there?
You imprison people.
But they couldn't imprison my spirit.
You can't imprison me.
Get out your envelope and imprison hairs.
You Earth people glorify organised violence for 40 centuries, but you imprison those who employ it privately.
Student, I don't want to imprison you.
The parks whose railings imprison you, the festering swamps near the sewer outlets, the monstrous factory gates.
Please imprison Prince Wolgang, my King!
They will imprison us.
And this golden cage in which we imprison our beautiful women?
My people thought they could imprison me on this wretched planet by implanting the power source inside the Creature.
Imprison yourself!
You can imprison my body, but not my soul.

News and current affairs

And, although Turkmenbashi died in December, his successor, Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov, has continued to imprison dissidents, stifle freedom of expression, and scoff at democracy, as February's rigged elections demonstrate.
First, it can imprison those who violate its media policy.
But to imprison corrupt managers, regulators and politicians is an essential element of a functioning and respected capitalism.
Should we imprison mothers because they are willingly sacrifice their daughters' physical integrity on the altar of tradition?
We condemn governments that silence, imprison, and even kill writers and journalists.
Guantanamo was selected as the site to imprison them in a deliberate--and successful--effort to prevent American civilian courts asserting their jurisdiction.
Instead, they repress, censor, silence and even imprison the moderates and appease the religious radicals.
Turkey's effort to fine and imprison those who do not toe the official line convinces me that I was correct to oppose opening negotiations on the country's European Union membership.
This pattern persists across Central and Eastern Europe, where governments have also opted to imprison drug users.
But to judge and imprison one's own mind, or any other mind, is to criminalize civilization.
Russia's growing wealth emboldened Putin, a change exemplified in his decision to arrest and imprison Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the owner of oil giant Yukos, in 2003.

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