[VN] [oftenpassive] to put sb in a prison or another place from which they cannot escape:
They were imprisoned for possession of drugs. * (figurative) Some young mothers feel imprisoned in their own homes.
imprisonment noun [U]:
to be sentenced to life imprisonment for murder
Rate this entry
About this entry
This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for imprison is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is imprison a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, imprison is tagged as verb.
Does imprison appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — imprison appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
What is Lughet?
Lughet is a free trilingual dictionary covering nearly five million entries across Uyghur, Chinese, and English, drawn from more than ten source dictionaries and corpora.
