Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to imprison
Participle: imprisoned
Gerund: imprisoning
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | imprison |
| you | imprison |
| he;she;it | imprisons |
| we | imprison |
| you | imprison |
| they | imprison |
Perfect
| I | have imprisoned |
| you | have imprisoned |
| he;she;it | has imprisoned |
| we | have imprisoned |
| you | have imprisoned |
| they | have imprisoned |
Past
| I | imprisoned |
| you | imprisoned |
| he;she;it | imprisoned |
| we | imprisoned |
| you | imprisoned |
| they | imprisoned |
Pluperfect
| I | had imprisoned |
| you | had imprisoned |
| he;she;it | had imprisoned |
| we | had imprisoned |
| you | had imprisoned |
| they | had imprisoned |
Future
| I | will imprison |
| you | will imprison |
| he;she;it | will imprison |
| we | will imprison |
| you | will imprison |
| they | will imprison |
Future Perfect
| I | will have imprisoned |
| you | will have imprisoned |
| he;she;it | will have imprisoned |
| we | will have imprisoned |
| you | will have imprisoned |
| they | will have imprisoned |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | imprison |
| you | imprison |
| he;she;it | imprison |
| we | imprison |
| you | imprison |
| they | imprison |
Perfect
| I | have imprisoned |
| you | have imprisoned |
| he;she;it | have imprisoned |
| we | have imprisoned |
| you | have imprisoned |
| they | have imprisoned |
Imperfect
| I | imprisoned |
| you | imprisoned |
| he;she;it | imprisoned |
| we | imprisoned |
| you | imprisoned |
| they | imprisoned |
Pluperfect
| I | had imprisoned |
| you | had imprisoned |
| he;she;it | had imprisoned |
| we | had imprisoned |
| you | had imprisoned |
| they | had imprisoned |
Conditional
Present
| I | would imprison |
| you | would imprison |
| he;she;it | would imprison |
| we | would imprison |
| you | would imprison |
| they | would imprison |
Perfect
| I | would have imprisoned |
| you | would have imprisoned |
| he;she;it | would have imprisoned |
| we | would have imprisoned |
| you | would have imprisoned |
| they | would have imprisoned |
Imperative
| you | imprison |
| we | Let's imprison |
| you | imprison |
Verbs conjugated like 'imprison'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'imprison'
emprison,
impoison,
disprison,
empoison,
enprison,
prison,
reimprison,
unimprison,
unprison,
caparison,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to put in jail
- enjail, jail
- To put someone in prison.
- bang up
- to put in prison
- confine, gaol, jail, send down
- To lock away; to imprison, especially for breaking the law.
- incarcerate
- To imprison or incarcerate someone.
- lock up
- To send (someone) to prison.
- put away
- To put into prison for not a short time.
- roof
Antonyms
- to give freedom to; to rid of that which confines, limits, embarrasses, or oppresses
- capture, confine, leash, restrain, liberate
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English imprisonen, emprisounen, emprisonen, from Old French emprisonner. Equivalent to im- + prison. See: Old French '
emprisonner'.
Sample Sentences
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One of the village's most notable sons was Thomas Grantham, a Baptist church leader born in 1634, who was persecuted and imprisoned in the struggle for nonconformist beliefs during the reign of Charles II. [1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 214, about Halton Holegate:]
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None of these people has ever had what they really wanted, and if they get a glimmer of it, they back off suspiciously, failures of imagination helping to imprison them further. [1985 December 21, Mara Math, “Fen (review)”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 23, page 15:]
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[...] demand for the boots fell sharply after the Battle of Waterloo, and Brunel was imprisoned for debt in 1821. [2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 87:]