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
Chris Spargo, PEOPLE, 5 Sep. 2025
South America is buzzing with debates over whether Maduro should be exiled or imprisoned.
—Kristina Foltz, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025
The federal government imprisoned Hibi and Okubo in concentration camps, first in California and then in Utah; Hayakawa relocated to New Mexico.
—Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
One of the authors of their most recent prison abuse report is currently imprisoned.
—Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 2 Sep. 2025
The wife of imprisoned former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol is now also being detained after her arrest on charges of bribery.
—Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 29 Aug. 2025
But the way the film was received by the House of Cinema, by women whose children are imprisoned and are held as political prisoners, was very different.
—Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 28 Aug. 2025
Today these first monsters are imprisoned in the rocks, crumbling from mountainsides of scree in British Columbia, and paved over by suburban subdivisions in Pennsylvania.
—Peter Brannen
august 28, Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2025
He has also been requested to pardon two people imprisoned for murder — one, a woman who killed an abusive husband; the other, a husband who killed a wife with late-stage Alzheimer’s.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2025
Verb
Moore previously served as the defense attorney for Louise and David Turpin, the California couple who abused and imprisoned their 13 children and dependent adults in a 'house of horrors' for years.
—Chris Spargo, PEOPLE, 5 Sep. 2025
South America is buzzing with debates over whether Maduro should be exiled or imprisoned.
—Kristina Foltz, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025
The federal government imprisoned Hibi and Okubo in concentration camps, first in California and then in Utah; Hayakawa relocated to New Mexico.
—Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
One of the authors of their most recent prison abuse report is currently imprisoned.
—Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 2 Sep. 2025
The wife of imprisoned former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol is now also being detained after her arrest on charges of bribery.
—Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 29 Aug. 2025
But the way the film was received by the House of Cinema, by women whose children are imprisoned and are held as political prisoners, was very different.
—Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 28 Aug. 2025
Today these first monsters are imprisoned in the rocks, crumbling from mountainsides of scree in British Columbia, and paved over by suburban subdivisions in Pennsylvania.
—Peter Brannen
august 28, Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2025
He has also been requested to pardon two people imprisoned for murder — one, a woman who killed an abusive husband; the other, a husband who killed a wife with late-stage Alzheimer’s.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for imprisoned
Verb
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The Atlanta rapper was jailed from May 9, 2022, through October 31, 2024, and in the past week, several of his alleged phone conversations have been released to the public through social media.—
DeMicia Inman,
VIBE.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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Acosta Peña joined a group of seventeen Venezuelan women, some of whom had been jailed for more than six months.—
Jonathan Blitzer,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Michel Iluz, whose son Guy Iluz was killed while captive in Gaza, shouted into the microphone at the Jerusalem protest, the pain in his voice mounting to a howl.—
WAFAA SHURAFA,
Arkansas Online,
7 Sep. 2025
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Residues of the Barbary lion gene pool might still be found in captive environments.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
7 Sep. 2025
Verb
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From January 2015 until August 2016, Cawthorn interned for Meadows.—
Danielle Battaglia,
Charlotte Observer,
4 Sep. 2025
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In fact, many of the technical experts working on eVTOL in the Bay Area either previously worked at or interned in the NASA or Army rotorcraft R&D groups at Moffett Field.—
Mike Hirschberg,
Forbes.com,
1 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The California Medical Facility is the largest hospital for incarcerated people in the state.—
Daniel Lempres,
Sacbee.com,
30 Aug. 2025
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Some incarcerated people have published their first professional publications through it.—
Manon Bischoff,
Scientific American,
20 Aug. 2025
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“Imprisoned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/imprisoned. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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