as in to jail
to put in or as if in prison
in this society, we try to imprison criminals so that they can't do any more harm
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Recent Examples of imprison
Along the way, Arenas is imprisoned for admitting to having slept with 5,000 men and eventually flees Cuba on the Mariel boatlift.
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Mathew Rodriguez, Them., 25 Sep. 2025
Abd El-Fattah was most recently imprisoned for six years, over a 2019 Facebook post about the death of an inmate.
—James Folta, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2025
Cleopatra was imprisoned in her palace, and legend has it that an ally brought her a basket of figs, and hidden within was the cobra that gave the Egyptian queen that fatal bite.
—Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 24 Sep. 2025
After Germany’s defeat in the war, Fritz Kiehn was deemed a Nazi war criminal and imprisoned for the better part of three years.
—Robert M. Ehrenreich, JSTOR Daily, 24 Sep. 2025
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Mathew Rodriguez, Them., 25 Sep. 2025
Abd El-Fattah was most recently imprisoned for six years, over a 2019 Facebook post about the death of an inmate.
—James Folta, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2025
Cleopatra was imprisoned in her palace, and legend has it that an ally brought her a basket of figs, and hidden within was the cobra that gave the Egyptian queen that fatal bite.
—Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 24 Sep. 2025
After Germany’s defeat in the war, Fritz Kiehn was deemed a Nazi war criminal and imprisoned for the better part of three years.
—Robert M. Ehrenreich, JSTOR Daily, 24 Sep. 2025
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Prosecutors sent the Bukele government an extradition request for Melgar, who was jailed in El Salvador at the time, according to Salvadoran court records.—
T. Christian Miller,
ProPublica,
30 Sep. 2025
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Dubov was part of Convers Sports Initiatives, alongside Vladimir Antonov, a Russian businessman later jailed for his role in a multi-million-dollar bank fraud.—
Nick Miller,
New York Times,
30 Sep. 2025
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The doctor has maintained his innocence but was convicted and incarcerated.—
Quinlan Bentley,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
25 Sep. 2025
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Dadiomov also said the way these drugs are used among people who are incarcerated is different because of the setting.—
Abigail Brooks,
NBC news,
25 Sep. 2025
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“Imprison.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/imprison. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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