jug

1. 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”

   Synonymsimprisonincarceratelagimmureput behind barsjailgaolput awayremand

   Broaderconfine

   law

2. 2.

   stew in an earthenware jug

   “jug the rabbit”

   Broaderstew

   cooking

Other forms of jug

plural

jugs·

past tense or participle

jugged

present participle

jugging

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 jug

What does jug mean?

jug means "a large bottle with a narrow mouth". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in jug?

jug has 1 syllable: jug. In IPA it is /ˈdʒʌɡ/.

What is another word for jug?

Close synonyms include jugful, imprison, incarcerate, lag, immure. 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 jug a common word?

jug 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.