imprison

1. (transitive) To put in or as if in prison; confine somebody against their will.Examples: "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."; "None of these people has ever had what they really wanted, and if they get a glimmer of it, they back off suspiciously, failures of imagination helping to imprison them further."; "[...] 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, immure, send to the Tower, bastilletransitive