imprison

Verb
  1. Lock up or confine, in or as in a jail (synset 202500005)
    "The suspects were imprisoned without trial"; "the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life"
    referred to in: jurisprudence, law - the collection of rules imposed by authority
    is a type of: confine, detain - deprive of freedom; take into confinement
    same as: gaol, immure, incarcerate, jail, jug, lag, put away, put behind bars, remand
  2. Confine as if in a prison (synset 202501466)
    "His daughters are virtually imprisoned in their own house; he does not let them go out without a chaperone"
    is a type of: confine, detain - deprive of freedom; take into confinement

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