Imprison

Definitions: Imprison

Imprison

Verb

1. Lock up in jail.

2. Confine as if in a prison; "His daughters are virtually imprisoned in their own house; he does not let them go out without a chaperone".

Date "imprison" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Note: Imprison \Im*pris"on\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Imprisoned; present participle verb or noun Imprisoning.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Imprison

Synonyms: gaol (v), immure (v), incarcerate (v), jail (v), jug (v), lag (v), put away (v), put behind bars (v), remand (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Circumscription	Verb: circumscribe, limit, bound, confine, inclose; surround; compass about; imprison; (restrain); hedge in, wall in, rail in; fence round, fence in,hedge round; picket; corral.
Restraint	Confine; shut up, shut in; clap up, lock up, box up, mew up, bottle up, cork up, seal up, button up; hem in, bolt in, wall in, rail in; impound, pen, coop; inclose; (circumscribe); cage; incage, encage; close the door upon, cloister; imprison, immure; incarcerate, entomb; clap under hatches, lay under hatches; put in irons, put in a strait-waistcoat; throw into prison, cast into prison; put into bilboes.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Imprison

English words defined with "imprison": Emprison, Engaol, Enjall ♦ Imprison ment, Imprisoning ♦ Reimprison ♦ To be confined, To clap up, Tollbooth. (references)

Specialty definitions using "imprison": Bottle-imps. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Hiding from Love: How to Change the Withdrawal Patterns That Isolate and Imprison You (reference) Imprison him! (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
John Donne	Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
John Hoskins	Sweet Benjamin, since thou art young, and hast not yet the use of tongue, make it thy slave, while thou art free; Imprison it, lest it do thee.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Civil Liberties	China	However, the Government continued to threaten, arrest and imprison persons exercising free speech. (references)
	Panama	Officials twice attempted to imprison Gaitan, but were prevented from doing so by the use of the courts. (references)
Discrimination	Namibia	Police are ordered to arrest you, and deport you and imprison you too." However, there were no reports that homosexuals were arrested, deported, or imprisoned during the year. (references)
Economic History	Argentina	This allowed the government to imprison persons indefinitely without charge. (references)
Human Rights	Haiti	Occasionally parents ask a judge to imprison a delinquent child. (references)
	Korea	There are no restrictions on the ability of the Government to detain and imprison persons at will and to hold them incommunicado. (references)
Minorities	Bhutan	Many ethnic Nepalese also were forced to sign "voluntary migration forms" wherein they agreed to leave the country, after local officials threatened to fine or imprison them for failing to comply. (references)
Political Economy	Turkey	The Government continued to harass, indict, and imprison human rights monitors, journalists, and lawyers for ideas that were expressed in public forums. (references)
	Cuba	The authorities routinely continued to harass, threaten, arbitrarily arrest, detain, imprison, and defame human rights advocates and members of independent professional associations, including journalists, economists, doctors, and lawyers, often with the goal of coercing them into leaving the country. (references)
Travel	Saudi Arabia	Police at all airports and internal roadblocks routinely arrest and imprison violators. (references)
Women	Jordan	The police regularly imprison women who are potential victims of honor crimes for their own protection. (references)
Worker Rights	Pakistan	The courts may imprison employers for violating this prohibition, but they are more likely to fine them. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Imprison" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Imprison" is used about 60 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	75%	45	50,900
Lexical Verb (base form)	25%	15	90,616
Total	100.00%	60	N/A

Expression using "imprison": Imprison ment. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "imprison"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		fut në burg (fling into prison, prison), fus në burg (prison), burgos (immure, incarcerate, quod, restrain, send up). (various references)

Arabic		‏حبس (confine, confinement, constraint, crib, custody, duress, gaol, imprisonment, jail, lockup, mewl, occlude, prison, sequester, sequestration, shut), ‏سجن (be imprisoned, can, clap, clink, confine, cooler, detain, detention, gaol, hatch, hock, immure, imprisonment, incarcerate, incarceration, intern, internment, jail, jug, lock up, lockup, log cabin, mure, nick, penitentiary, pokey, prison, quod, send up, stir, throw). (various references)

Bulgarian		хвърлям в затвора (constrain, gaol, jail), затварям (case, cicatrize, close, constrain, douse, enclose, gaol, hem, house, immure, incarcerate, jail, latch, lock, lock up, mew, obturate, pen, prison, pull to, restrain, screw up, seal off, shut, shut away, shut in, shut up, stop, turn off), държа в плен. (various references)

Chinese		監禁 , 监禁 (imprisoned, Imprisoning, imprisonment), 圄 , 下獄 . (various references)

Czech		zavřít (close, close down, coop up, fasten, pin, shut, shut down, turn off), uvìznit (confine, gaol, immure, incarcerate, jail). (various references)

Dutch		opsluiten (gaol, jail, lock up, put away, shut up, stow), gevangen zetten (gaol, jail). (various references)

Esperanto		malliberigi (jail). (various references)

Farsi		نگهداشتن (Hold, Prop, Restrain, Sustain), بزندان افکندن . (various references)

Finnish		vangita (arrest, put in prison, take into custody). (various references)

French		mettre en prison, emprisonner, écrouer. (various references)

German		einkerkern (dungeon, gaol, immure, incarcerate, to dungeon, to imprison, to incarcerate). (various references)

Greek		φυλακίζω (cage, commit to prison, confine, coop up, gaol, immure, incarcerate, intern, jail). (various references)

Hebrew		לחבוש (bandage, dress, put on, saddle, swathe), לכלוא (corral, immure, incarcerate, jail, lock up, put away, shut in). (various references)

Hungarian		bebörtönöz (incarcerate, prison, quod, to cage, to confine, to gaol, to imprison, to incarcerate, to put in prison, to quad, to take prisoner), börtönbe zár (to confine, to shop). (various references)

Indonesian		memenjarakan (dungeon). (various references)

Italian		incarcerare (gaol, incarcerate, jail), imprigionare (confine, gaol, immure, jail, put in prison, restrain, trap). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		閉じ込める (to imprison, to lock up, to shut up), 押込める (to imprison, to shut up), 押し込める (to imprison, to shut up). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		おし�"める (to imprison, to shut up), とじ�"める (to imprison, to lock up, to shut up). (various references)

Korean		투옥하십시�". (various references)

Manx		pryssooney (incarcerate), pryssoonaghey (confine, detain, gaol, incarcerate), cur ayns pryssoon (gaol, incarcerate, intern, jail). (various references)

Norwegian		fengsle (captivate, grip, jail). (various references)

Pig Latin		imprisonay.(various references)

Portuguese		imprimir (engrail, impress, ingraft, print, printable, publishing, stamp, strike off), encarcerar (gaol, incarcerate, jail, mew, mure, prison breaking, restrain), aprisionar (capture, catch, confine, constrain, gaol, grapple, jail), aferrolhar (bolt, fasten, hoarding, latch key, lock in). (various references)

Romanian		întemniţa (gaol, hold, immure, incarcerate, jail, jug, lag, lock up, pound, prison, secure). (various references)

Russian		заключать в тюрьму (commit to prison, incarcerate, mew up). (various references)

Scottish		prìosanaich (va. imprison). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		uhapsiti (arrest, bust up, detain, immure, incarcerate, nab, pick up, pinch, pull in, quod, run in), staviti u zatvor. (various references)

Spanish		encarcelar (confine, gaol, immure, incarcerate, jail, lock up, prison, put away, quod, send down). (various references)

Swedish		sätta i fängelse (fasten in, gaol), fängsla (arrest, attract, captivate, enchain, engross, enthral, enthrall, fascinate, fetter, grip, gyve, incarcerate, intrigue, shackle). (various references)

Turkish		yasaklamak (ban, bar, call off, clamp the lid on smth., debar, embargo, enjoin, forbid, inhibit, interdict, outlaw, prohibit, proscribe, put a ban on, put one's foot down, put the lid on smth., put under a ban, put under a taboo, taboo, tabu), tutuklamak (apprehend, arrest, bust, jail, Nick, pick up, pull in, rap, seize, take into custody, take smb. in charge), sınırlamak (bound, call off, circumscribe, confine, constrain, hedge, hedge about, hedge around, hem in, hold in, limit, line off, localize, qualify, restrain, restrict, straitjacket, terminate, tie), hapsetmek (bar, cage, confine, detain, immure, incarcerate, intern, jail, lock up, mew, mew up, mure, pen, pen in, pen up, restrain, shut in, shut up). (various references)

Turkmen		tьrmд basmak. (various references)

Ukranian		ув'язнювати (confine, constrain, dungeon, embar, gaol, immure, incarcerate, jail, pound, prison, quod), позбавляти волі (restrain). (various references)

Welsh		carcharu. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	conpescens, conpescuit, includet, includetur, incluserunt, inclusi, inclusit, inclusor, inclusorem, inclusos. (various references)
Old French	900-1400	estuier. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "imprison": imprisoned, imprisoning, imprisonment, imprisonments, imprisons. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Imprison" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: impions, Isparion. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "imprison" (pronounced i'mpri"zun)
6	-p r i" z u n	prison.
5	-r i" z u n	risen.
4	-i" z u n	arisen.
3	-z u n	artisan, bipartisan, brazen, chosen, citizen, cousin, crimson, denizen, dozen, emblazon, frozen, Hausen, Hazan, horizon, Mizen, nonpartisan, partisan, poison, reason, rosin, season, thousand, treason, unfrozen, wizen.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "i-i-m-n-o-p-r-s"
	-2 letters: minors, orpins, porism, primos, prions, prison, spinor.
	-3 letters: imino, impis, irons, minis, minor, morns, noirs, noris, norms, opsin, ornis, orpin, pions, pirns, porns, primi, primo, prims, prion, prism, proms, romps, rosin.
	-4 letters: impi, imps, inro, ions, iris, iron, mini, miri, mirs, miso, mons, mops, morn, mors, nims, nips, nisi, noir, noms, nori, norm, pins, pion, pirn, piso, pois, poms, pons, porn, prim, prom, pros, rims, rins, rips, romp, roms, simp, snip, sori, sorn, spin.
	-5 letters: imp, ins, ion, ism, mir, mis, mon, mop, mor, mos, nim, nip, nom, nor, nos, oms, ons, ops, ors, pin, pis, poi, pom, pro, psi, rim, rin, rip, rom, sim, sin, sip, sir, som, son, sop, sri.
	Words containing the letters "i-i-m-n-o-p-r-s"
	+1 letter: imprisons, promising, prosimian.
	+2 letters: comprising, impression, imprisoned, misprision, morphinism, permission, prosimians, reimposing.
	+3 letters: imprecision, impressions, imprisoning, improvising, misprisions, monitorship, morphinisms, parsimonies, patrimonies, permissions, positronium, prehominids, promisingly, provitamins, slipforming, temporising, unpromising.
	+4 letters: aminopterins, aminopyrines, anisotropism, compromising, impartations, impetrations, importancies, importations, imprecations, imprecisions, imprisonment, microphonics, mifepristone, misanthropic, misreporting, monitorships, necrophilism, operationism, outpromising, palindromist, parkinsonism, parsimonious, polymerising, positroniums, preadmission, premonishing, premonitions, premunitions, reimposition, reimpression, trampolinist.
	+5 letters: anisometropia, anisometropic, anisotropisms, chemisorption, computerising, expressionism, extemporising, imperfections, imperiousness, impersonality, impersonalize, impersonating, impersonation, importunities, impoverishing, impregnations, impressionism, impressionist, imprisonments, improvidences, improvisation, mifepristones, minicomputers, misanthropies, misimpression, misperception, misprograming, necrophilisms, nonpermissive, operationisms, overpromising, palindromists, parkinsonisms, perfectionism, philharmonics, preadmissions, premoistening, pretermission, primogenitors, protactiniums, protectionism, provincialism, pyridoxamines, recomposition, reimpositions, reimpressions, semiporcelain, superimposing, trampolinings, trampolinists, unpromisingly.
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