Dictionary Entry
imprison
imprison is a 8-letter English word with 4 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To put in prison or jail; To arrest and detain in custody; to confine. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 15 · 4 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To put in prison or jail; To arrest and detain in custody; to confine.
- 2transitive verb
To limit, restrain, or confine in any way.
- 3verb
lock up or confine, in or as in a jail
"The suspects were imprisoned without trial"
"the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life"
- 4verb
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"
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