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gaol

English

  1. 🔊 a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence)
  2. 🔊 lock up or confine, in or as in a jail
    “The suspects were imprisoned without trial”

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