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What is the verb for prison?

What's the verb for prison? Here's the word you're looking for.

imprison
  1. (transitive) To put in or as if in prison; confine.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The rules of due process were designed to ensure that the government cannot arbitrarily imprison innocent people.”
      “Empower us to live in your great Spirit, standing firm against all that would imprison your people in slavery to worldly idols.”
      “The authorities still arrest and imprison unsanctioned bishops and priests.”
prison
imprisons
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of imprison
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Whenever and wherever the U.S. government imprisons someone, the courts should be able to review it.”
      “El Commandante executes hijackers without trial and imprisons dissidents just like his former paymasters did in the Soviet Gulag.”
      “The one-eyed monster Cyclops imprisons them in his cave, while the beautiful seductress Circe turns Ulysses' men into swine.”
imprisoneth
  1. (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of imprison
prisons
imprisonest
  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of imprison
imprisoned
  1. simple past tense and past participle of imprison
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  3. Examples:
    1. “It is the story of Samson, the mighty warrior who was betrayed by his lover, and then blinded and imprisoned by his enemies, the Philistines.”
      “And the screams of what could be imprisoned men in an underground detention center echo through air shafts and sewer pipes.”
      “Between 1503 and 1506 he was imprisoned for forging a document, branded on the face, and confined to the city limits.”
prisoned
imprisoning
  1. present participle of imprison
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  3. Examples:
    1. “It seemed so easy to just escape from her captors, more so than any previous attempt at her imprisoning.”
      “Ten animal rights protesters were awarded compensation by police after officers were accused of falsely imprisoning them.”
      “I am currently obtaining signatures on a petition to the Home Secretary, to ask him to desist from imprisoning pensioners.”
prisoning
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