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imprison

English

  1. 🔊 lock up or confine, in or as in a jail
    “The suspects were imprisoned without trial”
  2. 🔊 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”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 apresar to imprison
  2. 🔊 recluir to imprison
  3. 🔊 encarcelar to imprison, incarcerate
  4. 🔊 enchironar to imprison, incarcerate

Similar words

incarcerate lag immure put behind bars jail jug gaol put away remand bastille beleaguer beset besiege blockade bolt in bound box in cage cast in prison chamber check circumscribe clap in jail clap up