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Imprisoned definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

IMPRIS'ONED, pp. Confined in a prison or jail; restrained from escape or from going at large.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: being in captivity [syn: captive, confined, imprisoned, jailed]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Imprison Im*pris"on, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Imprisoned; p. pr. & vb. n. Imprisoning.] [OE. enprisonen, OF. enprisoner, F. emprisonner; pref. en- (L. in) + F. & OF. prison. See Prison.] 1. To put in prison or jail; To arrest and detain in custody; to confine. He imprisoned was in chains remediles. --Spenser. 2. To limit, restrain, or confine in any way. Try to imprison the resistless wind. --Dryden. Syn: To incarcerate; confine; immure.

Moby Thesaurus

barred, behind bars, beleaguered, beset, besieged, blockaded, bound, cabined, caged, cloistered, closed-in, confined, cooped, cordoned, cordoned off, corralled, cramped, cribbed, enclosed, fenced, hedged, hemmed, immured, in captivity, in durance vile, in prison, in stir, incarcerated, jailed, leaguered, locked up, mewed, paled, penned, pent-up, quarantined, railed, restrained, shut-in, walled, walled-in