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"ref": "1985 December 21, Mara Math, “Fen (review)”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 23, page 15:",
"text": "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.",
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"ref": "2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 87:",
"text": "[...] demand for the boots fell sharply after the Battle of Waterloo, and Brunel was imprisoned for debt in 1821.",
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"en:Prison"
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"ref": "1985 December 21, Mara Math, “Fen (review)”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 23, page 15:",
"text": "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.",
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"ref": "2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 87:",
"text": "[...] demand for the boots fell sharply after the Battle of Waterloo, and Brunel was imprisoned for debt in 1821.",
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"(transitive) To put in or as if in prison; confine somebody against their will."
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"word": "bang up"
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{
"word": "gaol"
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{
"word": "jail"
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{
"word": "lock up"
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{
"word": "put away"
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{
"word": "immure"
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"word": "bastille"
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"code": "sq",
"lang": "Albanian",
"sense": "put in prison",
"word": "burgos"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ḥabasa",
"sense": "put in prison",
"word": "حَبَسَ"
},
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"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "sajana",
"sense": "put in prison",
"word": "سَجَنَ"
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"code": "arz",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ḥabas",
"sense": "put in prison",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "حبس"
},
{
"code": "ary",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "taḥbas",
"sense": "put in prison",
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"Moroccan-Arabic"
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"word": "تحبس"
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{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "bantarkel",
"sense": "put in prison",
"word": "բանտարկել"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "kalanavorel",
"sense": "put in prison",
"word": "կալանավորել"
},
{
"code": "ast",
"lang": "Asturian",
"sense": "put in prison",
"word": "encarcelar"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "opandizvam",
"sense": "put in prison",
"word": "опандизвам"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "put in prison",
"word": "empresonar"
},
{
"code": "chr",
"lang": "Cherokee",
"roman": "asduhvsga",
"sense": "put in prison",
"word": "ᎠᏍᏚᎲᏍᎦ"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "put in prison",
"word": "關押"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "guānyā",
"sense": "put in prison",
"word": "关押"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "put in prison",
"word": "監禁"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "jiānjìn",
"sense": "put in prison",
"word": "监禁"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "put in prison",
"word": "下獄"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "xiàyù",
"sense": "put in prison",
"word": "下狱"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "qiújìn",
"sense": "put in prison",
"word": "囚禁"
},
{
"code": "ckt",
"lang": "Chukchi",
"roman": "jok",
"sense": "put in prison",
"word": "ёк"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "put in prison",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "věznit"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "put in prison",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "uvěznit"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "put in prison",
"word": "fængsle"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "put in prison",
"word": "enprizonigi"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "put in prison",
"word": "malliberigi"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "put in prison",
"word": "vangita"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "put in prison",
"word": "emprisonner"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "put in prison",
"word": "mettre en prison"
},
{
"code": "fro",
"lang": "Old French",
"sense": "put in prison",
"word": "anprisoner"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "put in prison",
"word": "einsperren"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "put in prison",
"word": "einkerkern"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "fylakízo",
"sense": "put in prison",
"word": "φυλακίζω"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "phulakízō",
"sense": "put in prison",
"word": "φυλακίζω"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "put in prison",
"word": "bebörtönöz"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "put in prison",
"word": "fangelsa"
},
{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "put in prison",
"word": "memenjarakan"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "put in prison",
"word": "cuir i bpríosún"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "put in prison",
"word": "cuir i ngéibheann"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "put in prison",
"word": "imprigionare"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "put in prison",
"word": "incarcerare"
},
{
"alt": "けいむしょに入れる",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "keimusho ni ireru",
"sense": "put in prison",
"word": "刑務所に入れる"
},
{
"alt": "とうごくする",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "tōgoku suru",
"sense": "put in prison",
"word": "投獄する"
},
{
"alt": "とじこめる",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "tojikomeru",
"sense": "put in prison",
"tags": [
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"word": "閉じ込める"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "tuokhada",
"sense": "put in prison",
"word": "투옥하다"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "zátvora",
"sense": "put in prison",
"word": "за́твора"
},
{
"code": "gv",
"lang": "Manx",
"sense": "put in prison",
"word": "cur ayns pryssoon"
},
{
"code": "gv",
"lang": "Manx",
"sense": "put in prison",
"word": "pryssoonee"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "put in prison",
"word": "mauhere"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "put in prison",
"word": "whakaherehere"
},
{
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"sense": "put in prison",
"word": "mettre en prison"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "put in prison",
"word": "fengsle"
},
{
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "put in prison",
"word": "hæftan"
},
{
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "put in prison",
"word": "ġefæstnian"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "put in prison",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "więzić"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "put in prison",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "uwięzić"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "put in prison",
"word": "aprisionar"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "put in prison",
"word": "prender"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "put in prison",
"word": "encarcerar"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "put in prison",
"word": "întemnița"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "put in prison",
"word": "încarcera"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "put in prison",
"word": "închide"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "lišátʹ svobódy",
"sense": "put in prison",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "лиша́ть свобо́ды"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zaključátʹ v tjurʹmú",
"sense": "put in prison",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "заключа́ть в тюрьму́"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "sažátʹ v tjurʹmú",
"sense": "put in prison",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "сажа́ть в тюрьму́"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "put in prison",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "väzniť"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "put in prison",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "uväzniť"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "put in prison",
"word": "encarcelar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "put in prison",
"word": "aprisionar"
},
{
"code": "sw",
"lang": "Swahili",
"sense": "put in prison",
"word": "-funga"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "put in prison",
"word": "fängsla"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "kǎng",
"sense": "put in prison",
"word": "ขัง"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "uvʺjáznjuvaty",
"sense": "put in prison",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "ув'я́знювати"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "uvʺjaznýty",
"sense": "put in prison",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "ув'язни́ти"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "put in prison",
"word": "bỏ tù"
},
{
"code": "vo",
"lang": "Volapük",
"sense": "put in prison",
"word": "fanäböpön"
},
{
"code": "vo",
"lang": "Volapük",
"sense": "put in prison",
"word": "fanäbükön"
},
{
"code": "wa",
"lang": "Walloon",
"sense": "put in prison",
"word": "eprijhner"
},
{
"code": "wa",
"lang": "Walloon",
"sense": "put in prison",
"word": "resserer"
},
{
"code": "wa",
"lang": "Walloon",
"sense": "put in prison",
"word": "reclôre"
},
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"code": "wa",
"lang": "Walloon",
"sense": "put in prison",
"word": "egayoler"
}
],
"word": "imprison"
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