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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

... bad literature as there is bad pharmacy, but to condemn in a lump the most important of the fine arts seems to me a stupidity, a Gothic idea, worthy of the abominable times that imprisoned Galileo." ...

— Madame Bovary • Gustave Flaubert

... making hay while the sun shone, the little imprisoned party worked hard amongst the walrus, and with so much success, that there seemed to be no doubt about the cargo defraying the expenses of the expedition, and, if it should prove necessary, paying for a second voyage the ...

— Steve Young • George Manville Fenn

... speed (and it could not have been insignificant), its period of occultation continued. That was evident, but perhaps that would not have been the case in a supposedly rigidly parabolical trajectory— a new problem which tormented Barbicane's brain, imprisoned as he was in a circle of unknowns which he ...

— Jules Verne's Classic Books • Jules Verne

... their oars at a little distance from the beach till Lady Carse and her maid came down. After some delay, and many signals of entreaty from the ladies, the boat again approached, and the man in command of it was told that a lady of quality, wrongfully imprisoned in this island, desired to be carried to the main, and that, once among her friends in Edinburgh, she could give rewards for her escape to any amount. There was a short consultation in the boat, a laugh, and a decisive ...

— The Billow and the Rock • Harriet Martineau

... the edges of the sky; the birds were becoming very noisy. She lifted the curiously cut relic; an imprisoned fluid glimmered with pale-violet light—some scented French distillation which Rosalie affected because nobody else had ever heard of it—an aromatic, fiery essence, ...

— The Danger Mark • Robert W. Chambers

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