Definition

1. Verb:
   • To put into prison, to imprison: The act of officially confining someone in a jail or prison as a form of punishment or while awaiting trial.
   • To send to jail: The process of taking a person into custody and placing them in a detention facility.

Usage Examples

• Verb:
  • Sau phiên tòa, thẩm phán đã ra lệnh tống giam bị cáo. (After the trial, the judge ordered the defendant to be put into prison.)
  • Cảnh sát đã tống giam tên tội phạm nguy hiểm. (The police sent the dangerous criminal to jail.)
  • Hắn bị tống giam vì tội trộm cắp. (He was imprisoned for theft.)

Advanced Usage

• Legal/Formal Context: This verb is primarily used in formal, legal, or official contexts, such as in court verdicts, police reports, or news articles about crime.
  • Theo bản án, bị cáo bị tống giam 10 năm. (According to the sentence, the defendant was sentenced to 10 years in prison.)
• Implies Authority: The action is always carried out by an authority figure or institution (e.g., police, judge, state).
  • Chính quyền đã tống giam những người biểu tình. (The authorities imprisoned the protesters.)

Variants and Related Words

• Tống lao (verb): A synonym, meaning to put in prison. (Archaic/literary)
• Tống ngục (verb): A synonym, meaning to send to prison. (Archaic/literary)
• Bắt giam (verb): To arrest and detain. Focuses more on the initial arrest and detention.
• Giam giữ (verb): To detain, to hold in custody. A broader term for confinement.
• Bỏ tù (verb): To put in prison. A more common, general synonym.

Synonyms

• Bỏ tù: To put in prison.
• Giam cầm: To imprison, to hold captive.
• Cầm tù: To imprison.

Related Phrases (Phrasal Verbs)

• Tống cổ vào tù: (Idiomatic) To throw someone into jail. Emphasizes forceful or definitive action.
  • Tòa án đã tống cổ tên buôn lậu vào tù. (The court threw the smuggler into jail.)

Related Idioms

• Tống giam cho khuất mắt: To imprison someone to get them out of sight. Implies imprisonment for convenience or to remove a nuisance rather than purely for justice.
  • Họ muốn tống giam nhà báo đó cho khuất mắt. (They wanted to imprison that journalist to get him out of sight.)

verb

1. to put into prison, go to jail