Definition of imprison

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Imprison (v. t.) To limit, restrain, or confine in any way..

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Durance :: Durance (n.) Imprisonment; restraint of the person; custody by a jailer; duress. Shak.
Gaol :: Gaol (n.) A place of confinement, especially for minor offenses or provisional imprisonment; a jail..
Incorrigible :: Incorrigible (n.) One who is corrigible; especially, a hardened criminal; as, the perpetual imprisonment of incorrigibles..
Free :: Free (superl.) Not confined or imprisoned; released from arrest; liberated; at liberty to go.
Familiar :: Familiar (n.) A confidential officer employed in the service of the tribunal, especially in apprehending and imprisoning the accused..
Cession :: Cession (n.) The voluntary surrender of a person's effects to his creditors to avoid imprisonment.
Custody :: Custody (n.) State of being guarded and watched to prevent escape; restraint of liberty; confinement; imprisonment.
Commit :: Commit (v. t.) To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison.
Imprison Ment :: Imprison ment (n.) The act of imprisoning, or the state of being imprisoned; confinement; restraint..
Imprison :: Imprison (v. t.) To limit, restrain, or confine in any way..
Imprisoning :: Imprisoning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Impriso.
Tollbooth :: Tollbooth (v. t.) To imprison in a tollbooth.
Rescue :: Rescue (v.) The forcible liberation of a person from an arrest or imprisonment.
Incarcerate :: Incarcerate (a.) Imprisoned.
Duress :: Duress (n.) Hardship; constraint; pressure; imprisonment; restraint of liberty.
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..
#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..
Incarceration :: Incarceration (n.) The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment..
Commitment :: Commitment (n.) A warrant or order for the imprisonment of a person; -- more frequently termed a mittimus.
Liberty :: Liberty (n.) Freedom from imprisonment, bonds, or other restraint upon locomotion..
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