Synonyms of imprison

imprison

verb

im-ˈpri-zᵊn 

as in to jail

to put in or as if in prison

in this society, we try to imprison criminals so that they can't do any more harm

Synonyms & Similar Words

• jail
• incarcerate
• detain
• confine
• intern
• restrain
• commit
• arrest
• lock (up)
• immure
• restrict
• catch
• capture
• shut
• apprehend
• constrain
• limit
• seize
• jug
• gate
• impress
• bind
• keep
• bar
• hold
• impound
• nab
• pinch
• enchain
• handcuff
• shackle
• bust
• fetter
• pick up
• manacle
• shanghai
• trammel

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• liberate
• free
• release
• discharge
• emancipate
• enfranchise
• unchain
• unbind
• manumit
• unfetter
• uncage

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of imprison

Editors’ Picks How Patina Miller, of Starz’s ‘Power’ Series, Spends Her Sundays After the shooting, Mr. Cure’s family and attorneys said that he might have been triggered by the encounter after having been wrongfully imprisoned. —Christine Hauser, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2025

Cassian, meanwhile, learns that Bix has been imprisoned on the planet. —Randall Colburn, EW.com, 26 Feb. 2025

Among those imprisoned are opposition leaders, human-rights activists, journalists and several minors. —Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 26 Feb. 2025

Like his late father’s homing pigeons who keep returning to their shabby rooftop coop — a holding-pattern image that echoes the ennui of Terry Malloy on a very different waterfront — he’s imprisoned by the limits of his knowledge, the petrified loop of his experience. —Guy Lodge, Variety, 26 Feb. 2025