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verb (v)

• lock up or confine, in or as in a jail(verb.social)

  Example:
  The suspects were imprisoned without trial.
  

  Synonym:
  gaol, immure, incarcerate, jail, jug, lag, put away, put behind bars, remand
  

  source: wordnet30
• confine as if in a prison(verb.social)

  Example:
  His daughters are virtually imprisoned in their own house; he does not let them go out without a chaperone.
  

  source: wordnet30
• To put in prison or jail; To arrest and detain in custody; to confine.(verb)

  source: webster1913