prison

prison is a 6-letter English word with 6 senses as noun and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A place where persons are confined, or restrained of personal liberty; hence, a place or state o/ confinement, restraint, or safe custody. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A place where persons are confined, or restrained of personal liberty; hence, a place or state o/ confinement, restraint, or safe custody.
2. noun. Specifically, a building for the safe custody or confinement of criminals and others committed by lawful authority.
3. transitive verb. To imprison; to shut up in, or as in, a prison; to confine; to restrain from liberty.
4. transitive verb. To bind (together); to enchain.
5. noun. a correctional institution where persons are confined while on trial or for punishment
6. noun. a prisonlike situation; a place of seeming confinement

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in prison:

orpins, porins, prinos, prions, spinor

Common word forms

prisons, prisoned, prisoner, prisonful, prisoning, prisonous, prisonable, prisonment

Words from these letters

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