Word Meanings - EMPRISON - Book Publishers vocabulary database

IMPRISON
1. To put in prison or jail; To arrest and detain in custody; to confine. He imprisoned was in chains remediles. Spenser. 2. To limit, restrain, or confine in any way. Try to imprison the resistless wind. Dryden. Syn. -- To incarcerate; confine;
IMPRISONMENT
The act of imprisoning, or the state of being imprisoned; confinement; restraint. His sinews waxen weak and raw Through long imprisonment and hard constraint. Spenser. Every confinement of the person is an imprisonment, whether it be in a common
IMPRISONER
One who imprisons.
REIMPRISON
To imprison again.
REIMPRISONMENT
The act of reimprisoning, or the state of being reimprisoned.