All jail synonyms
jail
J j verb jail
- imprison β to confine in or as if in a prison.
- lock up β 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a door, gate, lid, drawer, or the like in position when closed, consisting of a bolt or system of bolts propelled and withdrawn by a mechanism operated by a key, dial, etc.
- put away β 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.
- incarcerate β to imprison; confine.
- confine β To confine something to a particular place or group means to prevent it from spreading beyond that place or group.
- detain β When people such as the police detain someone, they keep them in a place under their control.
- hold β 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.
- sentence β Grammar. a grammatical unit of one or more words that expresses an independent statement, question, request, command, exclamation, etc., and that typically has a subject as well as a predicate, as in John is here. or Is John here? In print or writing, a sentence typically begins with a capital letter and ends with appropriate punctuation; in speech it displays recognizable, communicative intonation patterns and is often marked by preceding and following pauses.
- take away β something taken back or away, especially an employee benefit that is eliminated or substantially reduced by the terms of a union contract.
- bastille β a fortress in Paris, built in the 14th century: a prison until its destruction in 1789, at the beginning of the French Revolution
- book β A book is a number of pieces of paper, usually with words printed on them, which are fastened together and fixed inside a cover of stronger paper or cardboard. Books contain information, stories, or poetry, for example.
- cage β A cage is a structure of wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
- can β You use can when you are mentioning a quality or fact about something which people may make use of if they want to.
- constrain β To constrain someone or something means to limit their development or force them to behave in a particular way.
- immure β to enclose within walls.
- impound β to shut up in a pound or other enclosure, as a stray animal.
- prison β a building for the confinement of persons held while awaiting trial, persons sentenced after conviction, etc.
- railroad β a permanent road laid with rails, commonly in one or more pairs of continuous lines forming a track or tracks, on which locomotives and cars are run for the transportation of passengers, freight, and mail.
- send up β an entertaining or humorous burlesque or parody; takeoff: The best skit in the revue was a send-up of TV game shows.
- throw the book at β a handwritten or printed work of fiction or nonfiction, usually on sheets of paper fastened or bound together within covers.
noun jail
- penitentiary β a place for imprisonment, reformatory discipline, or punishment, especially a prison maintained in the U.S. by a state or the federal government for serious offenders.
- lockup β a jail, especially a local one for temporary detention.
- detention home β a place where juvenile offenders or delinquents are held in custody, esp. temporarily pending disposition of their cases by the juvenile court
- secure unit β A secure unit is a building or part of a building where dangerous prisoners or violent psychiatric patients are kept.
- dungeon β Zork
- open prison β An open prison is a prison where there are fewer restrictions on prisoners than in a normal prison.
- oubliette β a secret dungeon with an opening only in the ceiling, as in certain old castles.
- borstal β In Britain in the past, a borstal was a kind of prison for young criminals, who were not old enough to be sent to ordinary prisons.
- remand home β a detention home for juvenile offenders aged 8β16 years.
- cell β A cell is the smallest part of an animal or plant that is able to function independently. Every animal or plant is made up of millions of cells.
- brig β A brig is a type of ship with two masts and square sails.
- bullpen β In baseball, a bullpen is an area alongside the playing field, where pitchers can practice or warm up.
- clink β If objects made of glass, pottery, or metal clink or if you clink them, they touch each other and make a short, light sound.
- cooler β A cooler is a container for keeping things cool, especially drinks.
- inside β on the inner side or part of; within: inside the circle; inside the envelope.
- jailhouse β a jail or building used as a jail.
- joint β the place at which two things, or separate parts of one thing, are joined or united, either rigidly or in such a way as to permit motion; juncture.
- pen β a female swan.
- pound β Archaic. to shut up in or as in a pound; impound; imprison.
- rack β the neck portion of mutton, pork, or veal.
- reformatory β serving or designed to reform: reformatory lectures; reformatory punishments.
- slammer β a person or thing that slams.
- solitary β alone; without companions; unattended: a solitary passer-by.
- stir β to move one's hand or an implement continuously or repeatedly through (a liquid or other substance) in order to cool, mix, agitate, dissolve, etc., any or all of the component parts: to stir one's coffee with a spoon.
- stockade β Fortification. a defensive barrier consisting of strong posts or timbers fixed upright in the ground.
- black hole β Black holes are areas in space, where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape from them. Black holes are thought to be formed by collapsed stars.
- detention camp β a compound where prisoners are detained temporarily, as pending determination of their legal status under immigration laws.
- house of correction β a place for the confinement and reform of persons convicted of minor offenses and not regarded as confirmed criminals.
- up the river β a natural stream of water of fairly large size flowing in a definite course or channel or series of diverging and converging channels.