| Library / English Dictionary |
IMPRISONED
| Pronunciation (US): |  | (GB): | |
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Being in captivity
Synonyms:
captive; confined; imprisoned; jailed
Classified under:
Similar:
unfree (hampered and not free; not able to act at will)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb imprison
Context examples:
And it is all very beautiful, this shaking off of the flesh and soaring of the imprisoned spirit.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
It appeared to my childish fancy, as I ascended to the bedroom where I had been imprisoned, that they brought a cold blast of air into the house which blew away the old familiar feeling like a feather.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
He knows well that I am imprisoned; and as he has done it himself, and has doubtless his own motives for it, he would only deceive me if I trusted him fully with the facts.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
And if it be found that these nurses ever presume to entertain the girls with frightful or foolish stories, or the common follies practised by chambermaids among us, they are publicly whipped thrice about the city, imprisoned for a year, and banished for life to the most desolate part of the country.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
