verb
- Lock up or confine, in or as in a jail.
- usage: "The suspects were imprisoned without trial"; "the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life"
- synonyms: imprison, incarcerate, lag, immure, put behind bars, jail, jug, gaol, put away, remand
adjective
- Being in captivity.
- synonyms: captive, confined, imprisoned
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