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imprisoning

 
Verb imprison has 2 senses
  1. 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"
    --1 is one way to confine, detain
    Derived forms: noun imprisonment1, noun imprisonment3
    Sample sentence:
    They want to imprison the prisoners
  2. 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"
    --2 is one way to
    confine, detain
    Derived form: noun imprisonment2
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s somebody
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