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He was imprisoned for murder.
He has threatened to imprison his political opponents.
Recent Examples of imprison from the Web
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Charter 08 was the last straw, and Liu was imprisoned in December of that year.
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Kim, who has imprisoned tens of thousands in concentration camps and has held off economic development in order to pursue nuclear weapons and missile programs, has demonstrated a lack of concern for the North Korean people.
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Security forces killed more than 1,000 Brotherhood supporters and imprisoned thousands more.
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Roberto Benigni stars as Guido, a cheery waiter whose happy bubble is burst when he, his wife, and his son are imprisoned.
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Carrie Cochran ABC's 20/20 tonight will air a report tonight on Otto Warmbier, the 22-year-old Wyoming, Ohio college student who was imprisoned in North Korea - and returned to the U.S. in a coma.
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Sharif has been through hell and back: she was viciously beaten by her parents, brainwashed by extremist ideology, and eventually imprisoned in nightmarish conditions just for driving a car.
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ISIS had imprisoned her father and likely killed her husband.
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Some orcs imprisoned in elaborate vine growths came as a surprise though, as did the relative calm of the nearby wildlife—creatures that usually attacked Talion on sight simply watched us walk deeper into the swamp.
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Origin and Etymology of imprison
Middle English, from Anglo-French emprisoner, from en- + prison prison
IMPRISON Defined for English Language Learners
imprison
playDefinition of imprison for English Language Learners
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: to put (someone) in prison
IMPRISON Defined for Kids
imprison
playDefinition of imprison for Students
imprisoned
;imprisoning
: to put in prison
Law Dictionary
imprison
Legal Definition of imprison
: to confine in prison especially as punishment for a crime — compare false imprisonment
imprisonment
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