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imprison

verb
/ɪmˈpɹɪzən/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English imprisonen, emprisounen, emprisonen, from Old French emprisonner. Equivalent to im- + prison.

  1. derived from emprisonner
  2. inherited from imprisonen

Definitions

  1. To put in or as if in prison

    To put in or as if in prison; confine somebody against their will.

    • 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.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA