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Imprisoned

adjective

Being in captivity. Synonyms: captive, confined, jailed.

Imprison

verb

(past & past part. imprisoned; pres. part. imprisoning)

Lock up or confine, in or as in a jail. Synonyms: gaol, immure, incarcerate, jail, jug, lag, put away, put behind bars, remand. "The murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life"

Confine as if in a prison.

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"Imprisoned" Quotes from Famous Books

... cannot understand this at all. What is the use of a man's always revolving round his own little circle? He must, one should think, be tired of it himself, as well as tire other people. A well-known writer says with much boldness, both in the thought and expression, that 'a Lord is imprisoned in the Bastille of a name, and cannot enlarge himself into man'; and I have known men of genius in the same predicament. Why must a man be for ever mouthing out his own poetry, comparing himself with Milton, ...

— Table-Talk - Essays on Men and Manners • William Hazlitt

... sleek eunuchs who speak in wheedling tones, and is always hot with intrigue. At the gates of the Palace lounge bow and jingal-armed Imperial guards. Inside is the Son of Heaven himself, the Emperor imprisoned in his own Palace by the Empress Mother, who is as masterful as ...

— Indiscreet Letters From Peking • B. L. Putman Weale

... Simon and Colonel Pinoteau, they were imprisoned in the Isle de R for five or six years. Eventually, Bonaparte, having become Emperor, set them free. Pinoteau had been vegetating for some time in Rufec, his birthplace, when, in 1808, the Emperor, who was on ...

— The Memoirs of General the Baron de Marbot, Translated by - Oliver C. Colt • Baron de Marbot

... pleasure of taunting Mizzoo with the very evident truth that before Willock was hanged or imprisoned, he ...

— Lahoma • John Breckenridge Ellis

... I worry over an imprisoned woodchuck; but then I should never again try to destroy a woodchuck by walling up his hole, any more than Br'er Fox would try to punish the rabbit by slinging him a second ...

— Roof and Meadow • Dallas Lore Sharp

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