put behind bars

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”

   Synonymsimprisonincarceratelagimmurejailjuggaolput awayremand

   Broaderconfine

   law

Questions about put behind bars

What does put behind bars mean?

put behind bars means "lock up or confine, in or as in a jail".

What is another word for put behind bars?

Close synonyms include imprison, incarcerate, lag, immure, 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 put behind bars a common word?

put behind bars is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.