Word

put behind bars, v.

lock up or confine, in or as in a jail
<verb.social> freq. cnt.: 4 freq. cnt.: 3 freq. cnt.: 1

gaol immure imprison incarcerate jail jug lag put away put behind bars remand

sample sentences

"The suspects were imprisoned without trial"
"the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life"

verb frames

Somebody ----s somebody
They want to %s the prisoners

verb frames

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verb frames

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verb frames

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verb frames

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verb frames

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verb frames

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verb frames

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verb frames

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verb frames

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lexical pointers

derivationally related form

imprisonment imprisonment

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

jail jailor jailer

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semantic pointers

domain of synset (topic)

law, jurisprudence

hypernym

detain, confine