imprison

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   lock up or confine, in or as in a jail

   The suspects were imprisoned without trial

2. 2
   verb

   confine as if in a prison

   They are virtually imprisoned in their own house.

3. 3
   verb

   To put in or as if in prison; confine somebody against their will.

   One of the village's most notable sons was Thomas Grantham, a Baptist church leader born in 1634, who was persecuted and imprisoned in the struggle for nonconformist beliefs during the reign of Charles II.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English imprisonen, emprisounen, emprisonen, from Old French emprisonner. Equivalent to im- + prison.