imprison

English

Alternative forms

• emprison

Etymology

From Middle English imprisonen, emprisounen, emprisonen, from Old French emprisonner.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪmˈpɹɪzən/
• Rhymes: -ɪzən

Verb

imprison (third-person singular simple present imprisons, present participle imprisoning, simple past and past participle imprisoned)

1. (transitive) To put in or as if in prison; confine.
   • 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 87:

     [...] demand for the boots fell sharply after the Battle of Waterloo, and Brunel was imprisoned for debt in 1821.

Synonyms

• bang up
• gaol, jail
• lock up
• put away
• (British, colloquial) send to the Tower
• See also Thesaurus:imprison

Derived terms

• imprisoner
• imprisonment

Translations

put in prison

• Arabic: حَبَسَ (ar) (ḥabasa), سَجَنَ (ar) (sajana)

  Egyptian Arabic: حبس (ḥabas)

  Moroccan Arabic: تحبس (taḥbas)

• Armenian: բանտարկել (hy) (bantarkel)
• Bulgarian: опандизвам (opandizvam)
• Catalan: empresonar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 關押／关押 (zh) (guānyā), 关押 (zh) (guānyā), 監禁／监禁 (zh) (jiānjìn), 监禁 (zh) (jiānjìn), 下獄／下狱 (zh) (xiàyù), 下狱 (zh) (xiàyù), 囚禁 (zh) (qiújìn), 囚禁 (zh) (qiújìn)

• Chukchi: ёк (jok)
• Czech: uvěznit (cs)
• Danish: fængsle
• Esperanto: enprizonigi, malliberigi
• Finnish: vangita (fi)
• French: emprisonner (fr), mettre en prison

  Old French: anprisoner

• German: einsperren (de), einkerkern (de)
• Greek: φυλακίζω (el) (fylakízo)

  Ancient: φυλακίζω (phulakízō)

• Hungarian: bebörtönöz (hu)
• Icelandic: fangelsa (is)
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• Irish: cuir i bpríosún
• Italian: imprigionare (it), incarcerare (it)
• Japanese: 刑務所に入れる (ja) (けいむしょに入れる, keimusho ni ireru), 投獄する (ja) (とうごくする, tōgoku suru), (figurative) 閉じ込める (とじこめる, tojikomeru)
• Korean: 투옥하다 (tuokhada)
• Manx: cur ayns pryssoon, pryssoonee
• Maori: mauhere
• Norman: mettre en prison
• Norwegian: fengsle (no)
• Old English: hæftan, ġefæstnian
• Polish: uwięzić (pl)
• Portuguese: aprisionar (pt), prender (pt), encarcerar
• Romanian: întemnița (ro), încarcera (ro)
• Russian: лиша́ть свобо́ды impf (lišátʹ svobódy), заключа́ть в тюрьму́ impf (zaključátʹ v tjurʹmú), сажа́ть в тюрьму́ impf (sažátʹ v tjurʹmú)
• Spanish: encarcelar (es), aprisionar (es)
• Swahili: -funga (sw)
• Swedish: fängsla (sv)
• Vietnamese: bỏ tù (vi)
• Volapük: fanäböpön (vo), fanäbükön (vo)
• Walloon: eprijhner (wa), resserer (wa), reclôre (wa), egayoler (wa)

Anagrams

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