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synonyms for imprison

  • apprehend
  • commit
  • detain
  • hold
  • incarcerate
  • jail
  • lock up
  • remand
  • cage
  • check
  • circumscribe
  • closet
  • constrain
  • curb
  • ice
  • immure
  • impound
  • intern
  • keep
  • limit
  • nab
  • occlude
  • pen
  • restrain
  • stockade
  • trammel
  • bastille
  • bottle up
  • fence in
  • hold captive
  • hold hostage
  • hold in custody
  • keep captive
  • keep in custody
  • lock in
  • put away
  • put behind bars
  • rail in
  • send to prison
  • send up
  • shut in
  • take prisoner
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antonyms for imprison

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  • cease
  • free
  • let go
  • liberate
  • release
  • stop
  • aid
  • allow
  • assist
  • help
  • permit
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I was at an immigrant jail in Louisiana, imprisoned for seeking political asylum.
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Arresting, prosecuting and imprisoning people for drug-related crimes is expensive.
OREGON JUST DECRIMINALIZED ALL DRUGS – HERE’S WHY VOTERS PASSED THIS GROUNDBREAKING REFORMLGBTQ-EDITORDECEMBER 10, 2020NO STRAIGHT NEWS
Independent journalist imprisoned for coronavirus reporting, now on hunger strike.
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They also do that by advocating for people’s sentences to be commuted, by expanding the grounds through which people can be eligible for release, or by advocating for compassionate release for elderly and infirm imprisoned people.
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The brave few who stand up to the regime are persecuted or imprisoned as criminals, accused of receiving money that the United States sends them to “subvert” the “sovereign and democratic order chosen by the people.”
MY VOTE ON BEHALF OF THOSE WHO ARE EXCLUDEDYARIEL VALDÉS GONZÁLEZOCTOBER 27, 2020WASHINGTON BLADE
Some of them talked secretly together and made a plan to imprison him and take possession of the ships.
ALILA, OUR LITTLE PHILIPPINE COUSINMARY HAZELTON WADE
But I've taken steps to imprison it in the tent, and it can't get out till I permit it.
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They oppose the Acts of Navigation, and imprison the King's officers for doing their duty.
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Imprison them for a quarter of a century, and on the day of their release they will conspire against czardom.
COMRADE KROPOTKINVICTOR ROBINSON
Certainly he plotted against him, sending his son Nerli to Lucca with orders to trap Castruccio and imprison him; which was done.
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