Pronunciations (2)
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/ɪmˈpɹɪzən/
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ɪmˈpɹɪzən
Verb
To put in or as if in prison; confine somebody against their will.
Usage- Transitive
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More examples (2)
One of the village's most notable sons was Thomas Grantham, a Baptist church leader born in 1634, who was persecuted and imprisoned in the struggle for nonconformist beliefs during the reign of Charles II.
None of these people has ever had what they really wanted, and if they get a glimmer of it, they back off suspiciously, failures of imagination helping to imprison them further.
[...] demand for the boots fell sharply after the Battle of Waterloo, and Brunel was imprisoned for debt in 1821.
Verb
lock up or confine, in or as in a jail
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The suspects were imprisoned without trial
the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life
confine as if in a prison
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His daughters are virtually imprisoned in their own house: he does not let them go out without a chaperone