as in arrested
taken and held prisoner
took up the cause of imprisoned political dissidents
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as in jailed
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 imprisoned
Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 25 Sep. 2025
Trump’s second term started out sunnier for Grenell, who played a key role in bringing back several Americans imprisoned in the country and sought to help negotiate deportation flights.
—Shelby Talcott, semafor.com, 25 Sep. 2025
Along the way, Arenas is imprisoned for admitting to having slept with 5,000 men and eventually flees Cuba on the Mariel boatlift.
—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
His father, a former military officer, was imprisoned following the Iranian revolution until his mother was able to negotiate his release with prison guards, according to reporting by the New York Times.
—Lily Mae Lazarus, Fortune, 18 Sep. 2025
Laboratory tests of smuggled samples taken from late Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny show that he was poisoned when he was imprisoned in a Siberian penal colony, his widow Yulia Navalnaya has said.
—Anna Chernova, CNN Money, 17 Sep. 2025
Verb
Fonzi’s second directorial outing tells the gripping story of Julieta, a young woman imprisoned after suffering a miscarriage, and Soledad Deza (portrayed by Fonzi herself), the courageous lawyer who dares to fight for justice in this deeply controversial and high-stakes case.
—Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 25 Sep. 2025
Trump’s second term started out sunnier for Grenell, who played a key role in bringing back several Americans imprisoned in the country and sought to help negotiate deportation flights.
—Shelby Talcott, semafor.com, 25 Sep. 2025
Along the way, Arenas is imprisoned for admitting to having slept with 5,000 men and eventually flees Cuba on the Mariel boatlift.
—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
His father, a former military officer, was imprisoned following the Iranian revolution until his mother was able to negotiate his release with prison guards, according to reporting by the New York Times.
—Lily Mae Lazarus, Fortune, 18 Sep. 2025
Laboratory tests of smuggled samples taken from late Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny show that he was poisoned when he was imprisoned in a Siberian penal colony, his widow Yulia Navalnaya has said.
—Anna Chernova, CNN Money, 17 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for imprisoned
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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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One of the suspects was preventively jailed for one month and 30 days, the Slantsevsky City Court of the Leningrad Region announced on Saturday, per Izvestia.—
Charlotte Phillipp,
PEOPLE,
29 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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There have been a number of attacks by captive big cats in recent years, including a fatal tiger attack on a keeper at the Palm Beach Zoo in 2016 and another by a lion at a North California animal sanctuary in 2013.—
CNN.com Wire Service,
Mercury News,
22 Sep. 2025
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The captive—and Cervantes—found something moving in those sonnets, something that gave them the will to hope.—
Ed Simon
September 22,
Literary Hub,
22 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Carpenter first met Kirk as a teenager in 2021 at a small gathering in the Arizona Biltmore and later interned for Turning Point Action.—
Helen Rummel,
AZCentral.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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Coppola interned with Chanel in the summer of 1986, and her youngest Cosima followed in her footsteps by interning with the house this summer.—
Leigh Nordstrom,
Footwear News,
11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The nonprofit has helped nearly 3,000 families keep connections between children and an incarcerated parent through visits at jails and prisons in Miami-Dade and across Florida, Shellie Solomon, president of Children of Inmates, said in an email.—
Douglas Hanks,
Miami Herald,
18 Sep. 2025
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Avner also said that some of the incarcerated women who volunteered with the meal program, who have since been released, have come back to volunteer.—
Everett Eaton,
jsonline.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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“Imprisoned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/imprisoned. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.
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