Associations to the word «Imprisoned»

Wiktionary

IMPRISON, verb. (transitive) To put in or as if in prison; confine.

Dictionary definition

IMPRISON, verb. Lock up or confine, in or as in a jail; "The suspects were imprisoned without trial"; "the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life".
IMPRISON, verb. 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".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats