jail
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Putting people in prison
at His/Her Majesty's pleasureidiom
bang someone up
bar
behind barsidiom
bird
commit
immured
imprisonment
in custody
incarcerate
incarceration
intern
lock
pen
remand someone in custody
restraint
rot
rot in jail, prison, etc.idiom
self-surrender
stretch
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imprisonable
imprisonment
imprison | American Dictionary
imprison
verb[ T ]
us/ɪmˈprɪz·ən/
to put someone in prison or in a situation that is like prison:
If found guilty, he could be imprisoned for ten years.
After weeks of snow, she felt imprisoned in her own home.
imprisonment
noun[ U ]us/ɪmˈprɪz·ən·mənt/