Definition of imprison

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Imprison (v. t.) To put in prison or jail; To arrest and detain in custody; to confine.

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Prisonment :: Prisonment (n.) Imprisonment.
Immure :: Immure (v. t.) To inclose whithin walls, or as within walls; hence, to shut up; to imprison; to incarcerate..
Gaol :: Gaol (n.) A place of confinement, especially for minor offenses or provisional imprisonment; a jail..
Prison :: Prison (v. t.) To imprison; to shut up in, or as in, a prison; to confine; to restrain from liberty..
Free :: Free (superl.) Not confined or imprisoned; released from arrest; liberated; at liberty to go.
Liberty :: Liberty (n.) Freedom from imprisonment, bonds, or other restraint upon locomotion..
Incarcerate :: Incarcerate (v. t.) To imprison; to confine in a jail or prison.
Commute :: Commute (v. t.) To exchange; to put or substitute something else in place of, as a smaller penalty, obligation, or payment, for a greater, or a single thing for an aggregate; hence, to lessen; to diminish; as, to commute a sentence of death to one of imprisonment for life; to commute tithes; to commute charges for fares..
Felony :: Felony (n.) A heinous crime; especially, a crime punishable by death or imprisonment..
Imprisoner :: Imprisoner (n.) One who imprisons.
Jail :: Jail (v. t.) To imprison.
Cession :: Cession (n.) The voluntary surrender of a person's effects to his creditors to avoid imprisonment.
Imprison :: Imprison (v. t.) To put in prison or jail; To arrest and detain in custody; to confine.
Custody :: Custody (n.) State of being guarded and watched to prevent escape; restraint of liberty; confinement; imprisonment.
Emprison :: Emprison (v. t.) See Imprison.
Reimprisonment :: Reimprisonment (n.) The act of reimprisoning, or the state of being reimprisoned..
Confinement :: Confinement (n.) Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion.
Durance :: Durance (n.) Imprisonment; restraint of the person; custody by a jailer; duress. Shak.
#NAME? :: -ment () A suffix denoting that which does a thing; an act or process; the result of an act or process; state or condition; as, aliment, that which nourishes, ornament, increment; fragment, piece broken, segment; abridgment, act of abridging, imprisonment, movement, adjournment; amazement, state of being amazed, astonishment..
Wrongous :: Wrongous (a.) Not right; illegal; as, wrongous imprisonment..
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