put behind bars

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, imprison, incarcerate, jail, jug, lag, put away, remand

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