imprison
/ɪmˈpɹɪzən/ verb B2- To put in or as if in prison; confine somebody against their will.
He/she/it imprisons · Past imprisoned · Past participle imprisoned · -ing form imprisoning
Verb forms
- Base form
- imprison
- He/she/it
- imprisons
- Past
- imprisoned
- Past participle
- imprisoned
- -ing form
- imprisoning
From the library
Some time after, the Shepherd, being imprisoned on a false accusation, was condemned “to be cast to the Lions” as the punishment for his imputed crime.
So after that she took no food to the imprisoned Lion; but every day she came to the gate at noon and asked, “Are you ready to be harnessed like a horse?”
“I am not going there to be imprisoned,” said Dantès; “it is only used for political prisoners.
“You think, then,” said he, “that I am taken to the Château d’If to be imprisoned there?”
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