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say it: im-PRIZ-uhn
imprison is a verb meaning "lock up or confine, in or as in a jail". It carries 2 recorded senses.
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”
law
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”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for imprison come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.