imprisoned
Definition
- 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.
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