imprison
英 [?m'pr?z(?)n]
美[?m'pr?zn]
- vt. 監(jiān)禁；關(guān)押；使…下獄
英英釋意
- 1. lock up or confine, in or as in a jail;
- "The suspects were imprisoned without trial"
- "the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life"
- 2. confine as if in a prison;
- "His daughters are virtually imprisoned in their own house; he does not let them go out without a chaperone"