imprison
英 [ɪm'prɪz(ə)n]
美[ɪm'prɪzn]
- vt. 监禁；关押；使…下狱
英英释意
- 1. lock up or confine, in or as in a jail;
- "The suspects were imprisoned without trial"
- "the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life"
- 2. confine as if in a prison;
- "His daughters are virtually imprisoned in their own house; he does not let them go out without a chaperone"