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imprison
Overview of verb imprison
The verb imprison has 2 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)
1. (3) imprison, incarcerate, lag, immure, put behind bars, jail, jug, gaol, put away, remand -- (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")
2. (1) imprison -- (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")
Grep of noun imprison
imprisonment
Antonyms of verb imprison
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb imprison
2 senses of imprison
Sense 1
imprison, incarcerate, lag, immure, put behind bars, jail, jug, gaol, put away, remand
=> confine, detain
Sense 2
imprison
=> confine, detain
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb imprison
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb imprison
2 senses of imprison
Sense 1
imprison, incarcerate, lag, immure, put behind bars, jail, jug, gaol, put away, remand
=> confine, detain
Sense 2
imprison
=> confine, detain
'Cause To' of verb imprison
Derived Forms of verb imprison
2 senses of imprison
Sense 1
imprison, incarcerate, lag, immure, put behind bars, jail, jug, gaol, put away, remand
RELATED TO>(noun) imprisonment#1
=> imprisonment
RELATED TO>(noun) imprisonment#3
=> imprisonment, internment
Sense 2
imprison
RELATED TO>(noun) imprisonment#2
=> captivity, imprisonment, incarceration, immurement
Domain of verb imprison
1 of 2 senses of imprison
Sense 1
imprison, incarcerate, lag, immure, put behind bars, jail, jug, gaol, put away, remand
TOPIC>(noun) law#2, jurisprudence#2
Domain Terms of verb imprison
Familiarity of verb imprison
imprison used as a verb is rare (polysemy count =2)
Sample Sentences of verb imprison
2 senses of imprison
Sense 1
imprison, incarcerate, lag, immure, put behind bars, jail, jug, gaol, put away, remand
EX: They want to imprison the prisoners
Sense 2
imprison
*> Somebody ----s somebody
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb imprison
2 senses of imprison
Sense 1
imprison, incarcerate, lag, immure, put behind bars, jail, jug, gaol, put away, remand
> confine, detain
=> keep
=> straiten
=> imprison, incarcerate, lag, immure, put behind bars, jail, jug, gaol, put away, remand
=> intern
=> bind over
=> imprison
=> cage, cage in
=> trap
=> keep in
Sense 2
imprison
> confine, detain
=> keep
=> straiten
=> imprison, incarcerate, lag, immure, put behind bars, jail, jug, gaol, put away, remand
=> intern
=> bind over
=> imprison
=> cage, cage in
=> trap
=> keep in
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb imprison
Sense 1
imprison, incarcerate, lag, immure, put behind bars, jail, jug, gaol, put away, remand
=> confine, detain
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Sense 2
imprison
=> confine, detain
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Grep of verb imprison
imprison
Grep of adj imprison
imprisoned
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