jail

²jail

verb

Definition of JAIL

transitive verb

: to confine in or as if in a jail

Examples of JAIL

1. <threatened to jail the punks if they so much as jaywalked>

First Known Use of JAIL

1604

Related to JAIL

Synonyms: commit, confine, immure, incarcerate, intern, imprison, jug, lock (up)

Antonyms: discharge, free, liberate, release

Related Words: constrain, limit, restrain, restrict, shut; bar, gate; apprehend, arrest, bust [slang], capture, catch, detain, nab, pick up, pinch, seize; impress, shanghai; hold, impound, keep; bind, enchain, fetter, handcuff, manacle, shackle, trammel

Near Antonyms: emancipate, enfranchise, manumit, unbind, uncage, unchain, unfetter

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Other Legal Terms

actionable, alienable, carceral, chattel, complicity, decedent, larceny, malfeasance, modus operandi