imprisoned

Thân thiện

The judge sentenced the criminal to be imprisoned for his crimes.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Being in captivity: The state of being confined or held against one's will, typically in a prison or jail, as a result of legal authority or force.

Usage

• Adjective:
  • The imprisoned activists were denied access to their lawyers. (The activists who were held in captivity were denied access to their lawyers.)
  • He spent ten years as an imprisoned political dissident. (He spent ten years as a political dissident who was in captivity.)

Advanced Usage

• "to feel imprisoned": to feel trapped or confined, often in a metaphorical sense, not necessarily in a physical jail.
  • In her small hometown, she felt imprisoned by the lack of opportunity. (In her small hometown, she felt trapped by the lack of opportunity.)

Variants and Related Words

• Imprison (verb): to put or keep someone in prison.
  • The court decided to imprison the convicted criminal.
• Imprisonment (noun): the state of being imprisoned; confinement.
  • He was sentenced to five years of imprisonment.

Synonyms

• Incarcerated: confined in a prison or jail.
• Confined: kept within limits; restrained.
• Jailed: put into jail.

Antonyms

• Free: not under the control or in the power of another; able to act or be done as one wishes.
• Liberated: set free from imprisonment, slavery, or oppression.

Related Phrases

• Wrongly imprisoned: imprisoned unjustly or by mistake.
  • After new evidence emerged, the wrongly imprisoned man was released.
• Hold imprisoned: to keep someone in captivity.
  • The rebels held the soldiers imprisoned for months.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. being in captivity

Từ đồng nghĩa

• captive
• confined
• jailed