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