jail
/d͡ʒeɪl/ verb C2- To imprison, incarcerate, enjail.
He/she/it jails · Past jailed · Past participle jailed · -ing form jailing
Verb forms
- Base form
- jail
- He/she/it
- jails
- Past
- jailed
- Past participle
- jailed
- -ing form
- jailing
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I could go to jail happy if I knew that you were working for me outside.”
“I don’t know whether you think that McFarlane came out of jail in the dead of the night in order to strengthen the evidence against himself,” said Lestrade.
He had once been a skilful sculptor and had earned an honest living, but he had taken to evil courses and had twice already been in jail—once for a petty theft, and once, as we had already heard, for stabbing a fellow-countryman.
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