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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"