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
The government then deported Abrego Garcia to El Salvador where he was imprisoned in the Center for Terrorism Confinement — despite an immigration judge’s previous order that he not be sent to El Salvador.
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Phil Helsel, NBC news, 12 June 2025
The government controls education and public media; independent journalists and bloggers who have criticized the government have been imprisoned.
—Stephanie Yang, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2025
If sentences can be broken, literally and metaphorically, by the imprisoned themselves then the state’s jurisdiction, a favored term of legal power play, has been breached.
—Amir Hussain
june 6, Literary Hub, 6 June 2025
Abbas has imprisoned or banished any possible rivals for power.
—Sean Durns, The Washington Examiner, 6 June 2025
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Phil Helsel, NBC news, 12 June 2025
The government controls education and public media; independent journalists and bloggers who have criticized the government have been imprisoned.
—Stephanie Yang, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2025
If sentences can be broken, literally and metaphorically, by the imprisoned themselves then the state’s jurisdiction, a favored term of legal power play, has been breached.
—Amir Hussain
june 6, Literary Hub, 6 June 2025
Abbas has imprisoned or banished any possible rivals for power.
—Sean Durns, The Washington Examiner, 6 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for imprison
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He’d been arrested and jailed after the victim’s death on unrelated charges in a different jurisdiction.—
Brian Niemietz,
New York Daily News,
25 June 2025
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Venus' killer fled the scene and was never found, but the subjects of I'm Your Venus uncover new details related to the murder that weren't publicized at the time of the performer's death — including a disturbing confession from an unidentified man previously jailed over a rape case.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
24 June 2025
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But Alexander denied Echols' request in June 2022, saying Arkansas Act 1780 of 2001 only allows incarcerated people the opportunity to seek new evidence testing.—
Bill Bowden,
Arkansas Online,
27 June 2025
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Max Ludwig Nansen, a Fictional Painter Turned Martyr Set in Germany in the 1950s, the novel is told through the eyes of Siggi, a young man incarcerated in a prison for delinquent youths.—
Ombline Damy,
JSTOR Daily,
26 June 2025
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“Imprison.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/imprison. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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