imprison

Other forms of imprison

past tense

imprisonned·

present participle

imprisonning·

third person

imprisons·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about imprison

What does imprison mean?

imprison means "lock up or confine, in or as in a jail". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in imprison?

imprison has 3 syllables: im-pris-on. The stress falls on "pris". In IPA it is /ˌɪmˈpɹɪzən/.

What is another word for imprison?

Close synonyms include incarcerate, lag, immure, put behind bars, jail. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is imprison a common word?

imprison is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with imprison?

1 word rhymes with imprison. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.