imprison

imprison has 4 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 8.

Definitions

• v. t.. To put in prison or jail; To arrest and detain in custody; to confine.
• v. t.. To limit, restrain, or confine in any way.
• v.. 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"
• v.. 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"