All imprison synonyms

verb imprison

• confine — To confine something to a particular place or group means to prevent it from spreading beyond that place or group.
• incarcerate — to imprison; confine.
• apprehend — If the police apprehend someone, they catch them and arrest them.
• detain — When people such as the police detain someone, they keep them in a place under their control.
• jail — a prison, especially one for the detention of persons awaiting trial or convicted of minor offenses.
• commit — If someone commits a crime or a sin, they do something illegal or bad.
• hold — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
• remand — to send back, remit, or consign again.
• lock up — a device for securing a door, gate, lid, drawer, or the like in position when closed, consisting of a bolt or system of bolts propelled and withdrawn by a mechanism operated by a key, dial, etc.
• nab — to arrest or capture.
• constrain — To constrain someone or something means to limit their development or force them to behave in a particular way.
• closet — A closet is a piece of furniture with doors at the front and shelves inside, which is used for storing things.
• immure — to enclose within walls.
• ice — the solid form of water, produced by freezing; frozen water.
• keep — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
• trammel — Usually, trammels. a hindrance or impediment to free action; restraint: the trammels of custom.
• intern — to restrict to or confine within prescribed limits, as prisoners of war, enemy aliens, or combat troops who take refuge in a neutral country.
• restrain — to hold back from action; keep in check or under control; repress: to restrain one's temper.
• stockade — Fortification. a defensive barrier consisting of strong posts or timbers fixed upright in the ground.
• pen — a female swan.
• circumscribe — If someone's power or freedom is circumscribed, it is limited or restricted.
• curb — If you curb something, you control it and keep it within limits.
• limit — the final, utmost, or furthest boundary or point as to extent, amount, continuance, procedure, etc.: the limit of his experience; the limit of vision.
• cage — A cage is a structure of wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
• check — Check is also a noun.
• occlude — to close, shut, or stop up (a passage, opening, etc.).
• impound — to shut up in a pound or other enclosure, as a stray animal.
• bottle up — If you bottle up strong feelings, you do not express them or show them, especially when this makes you tense or angry.
• put away — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
• bastille — a fortress in Paris, built in the 14th century: a prison until its destruction in 1789, at the beginning of the French Revolution
• fence in — a barrier enclosing or bordering a field, yard, etc., usually made of posts and wire or wood, used to prevent entrance, to confine, or to mark a boundary.
• lock in — a device for securing a door, gate, lid, drawer, or the like in position when closed, consisting of a bolt or system of bolts propelled and withdrawn by a mechanism operated by a key, dial, etc.
• send up — an entertaining or humorous burlesque or parody; takeoff: The best skit in the revue was a send-up of TV game shows.
• shut in — closed; fastened up: a shut door.
• send down — to cause, permit, or enable to go: to send a messenger; They sent their son to college.
• cheque — A cheque is a printed form on which you write an amount of money and who it is to be paid to. Your bank then pays the money to that person from your account.