· lock up or confine, in or as in a jail; "The suspects were imprisoned without trial"; "the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life"
Synonym(s): incarcerate, lag, immure, put_behind_bars, jail, jug, gaol, put_away, remand
· confine as if in a prison; "His daughters are virtually imprisoned in their own house; he does not let them go out without a chaperone"