IMPRIS'ON, verb transitive impriz'n. 1. To put into a prison; to confine in a prison or jail, or to arrest and detain in custody in any place. 2. To confine; to shut up; to restrain from escape; to deprive of the liberty to move from place to place; as, to be imprisoned in a cell. He imprisoned was in chains remediless. Try to imprison the resistless winds.
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