imprison
(verb)
verb
1. lock up or confine, in or as in a jail
- The suspects were imprisoned without trial
Similar word(s): gaol, immure, incarcerate, jail, jug, lag, remand
Definition categories: social, confine, detain
2. 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