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Imprisoned

adjective

Being in captivity. Synonyms: captive, confined, jailed.

Imprison

verb

(past & past part. imprisoned; pres. part. imprisoning)

Lock up or confine, in or as in a jail. Synonyms: gaol, immure, incarcerate, jail, jug, lag, put away, put behind bars, remand. "The murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life"

Confine as if in a prison.

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"Imprisoned" Quotes from Famous Books

... things to the old Indian. Food, sleep, and physical freedom. He had once been in jail and had suffered as only those used to the open sky suffer when imprisoned. The young vaquero had eaten, and had food with him. His eyes had shown that he was not in need of sleep. Yet he had all but said there would be ...

— The Ridin' Kid from Powder River • Henry Herbert Knibbs

... during the siege of the city he fell into the power of the nobles, who beat him and imprisoned him in a dungeon. The king was not able to release him, so low had the royal power sunk in that disastrous age; but he secretly befriended him, and asked his counsel. The princes insisted on his removal to a place where no succor could reach ...

— Beacon Lights of History, Volume II • John Lord

... taken refuge behind a tree, ordered him to yield, Ricca waited patiently till the point of his enemy's foot became visible, when he pierced his ankle-bone with his last bullet and escaped. He afterwards surrendered and was imprisoned for twenty years or so; then returned to the Sila, where up to a short time ago he was enjoying a green old age in his home at Parenti—Parenti, already celebrated in the annals of brigandage by the exploit of the perfidious Francatripa (Giacomo ...

— Old Calabria • Norman Douglas

... imprisoned in this sealed box of a room was not soothing to Martin's temper. He was not frightened—he was angry. The haughty Carew had aroused in him resentment; now, he had been slugged semi-conscious and locked in this room. His anger reached the proportions of ...

— Fire Mountain - A Thrilling Sea Story • Norman Springer

... follow. Montesquieu's Persian Letters, satirizing French society, appeared as early as 1721. Voltaire's sarcasms and witty sneers got him into trouble with the French Government as early as 1715. He was imprisoned in the Bastille, but released and at last driven from his country, a firebrand cast loose upon Europe to spread the doctrine of man's equality, to cry out everywhere for justice against oppression, and to mock with almost satanic ingenuity against the religion in whose ...

— The Great Events by Famous Historians, v. 13 • Various

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