Imprison

Verb

 * 1)  To put in or as if in prison; confine.

Synonyms

 * bang up
 * gaol, jail
 * lock up
 * put away
 * sent to the Tower “imprisoned”
 * See also Thesaurus:imprison

Derived terms

 * imprisonment

Adverbs for Imprison
temporarily; unjustly; legally; permanently; tyrannically; harshly; perpetually.

Thesaurus
bastille, beleaguer, beset, besiege, blockade, bolt in, bound, box in, cage, cast in prison, chamber, check, circumscribe, clap in jail, clap up, close in, compass, confine, constrain, contain, coop, coop in, coop up, cordon, cordon off, corral, curb, detain, encircle, enclose, encompass, enshrine, fence in, gaol, hedge in, hem in, hold captive, hold in captivity, hold prisoner, house in, immure, impound, incarcerate, include, intern, jail, jug, kennel, leaguer, limit, lock in, lock up, mew, mew up, pen, pen in, pocket, prison, put away, quarantine, quod, rail in, release, remand, restrain, restrict, send down, shrine, shut in, shut up, stable, surround, throw into jail, wall in, wrap, yard, yard up

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: опандизвам
 * Catalan: empresonar
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Esperanto: enprizonigi, malliberigi
 * Finnish:
 * French: emprisonner, mettre en prison
 * Old French:
 * German: einsperren, einkerkern
 * Greek:


 * Icelandic:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 刑務所に入れる (けいむしょに入れる, keimusho nīreru)
 * Korean: 투옥하다
 * Mandarin: (guānyā)
 * Norwegian: fengsle
 * Polish: uwięzić
 * Portuguese: aprisionar, prender, ser preso
 * Spanish: encarcelar, aprisionar
 * Swedish: fängsla