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Etymology

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Inherited fromMiddle Englishimprisonen,emprisounen,emprisonen, fromOld Frenchemprisonner.

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imprison (third-person singular simple presentimprisons,present participleimprisoning,simple past and past participleimprisoned)

  1. (transitive) To put in or as if inprison;confine somebody against their will.
    • 1980,AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 214, aboutHalton Holegate:
      One of the village's most notable sons was Thomas Grantham, a Baptist church leader born in 1634, who was persecuted andimprisoned in the struggle for nonconformist beliefs during the reign of Charles II.
    • 1985 December 21, Mara Math, “Fen (review)”, inGay Community News, volume13, number23, page15:
      None of these people has ever had what they really wanted, and if they get a glimmer of it, they back off suspiciously, failures of imagination helping toimprison them further.
    • 2012, Andrew Martin,Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books,→ISBN, page87:
      [...] demand for the boots fell sharply after the Battle of Waterloo, and Brunel wasimprisoned for debt in 1821.

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  • The termto imprison implies asentencing has taken place when used to describe actions taken by a legal system, whereastojail may imply a temporary holding before a trial, conviction, and sentencing.

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put in prison

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