as in arrested
taken and held prisoner
took up the cause of imprisoned political dissidents
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as in jailed
to put in or as if in prison
in this society, we try to imprison criminals so that they can't do any more harm
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Recent Examples of imprisoned
Dan Mangan, CNBC, 17 Dec. 2025
CNN Money, 9 Feb. 2026
Bankman-Fried was later imprisoned for fraud, and Anthropic’s leadership began to pretend that effective altruism did not exist.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
Some detainees have won asylum protection or agreed to deportation but remain imprisoned indefinitely without court hearings or clear information about their cases.
—Gisela Salomon, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2026
Assistant District Attorney Desmond McCallum said in court Thursday that cellphone and Apple Cloud information suggested Dominque had been imprisoned in the bathroom and a dog crate.
—Charlotte Observer, 5 Feb. 2026
Panahi has been arrested multiple times and imprisoned twice by Iranian authorities for making revelatory, clandestinely shot films like This Is Not a Film and Taxi.
—Yohana Desta, Vanity Fair, 5 Feb. 2026
Routh suggested trading himself for journalists imprisoned in China, protesters held in Iran or prisoners of war suffering in Russia.
—Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 4 Feb. 2026
Thousands more have been imprisoned.
—Shahrnush Parsipur, Time, 3 Feb. 2026
Skylark by Paula McLain Set across two eras in Paris, Skylark follows Alouette Voland, a young woman unjustly imprisoned in the Salpêtrière asylum in 1664, and Kristof Larson, a medical resident in 1939 risking everything to protect his Jewish neighbors during the Nazi occupation.
—Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 31 Jan. 2026
Adjective
Habeas petitions are, as a rule, the last option for an imprisoned person to void their convictions.
—Dan Mangan, CNBC, 17 Dec. 2025
Verb
Mohammadi suffered multiple heart attacks while imprisoned before undergoing emergency surgery in 2022, her supporters say.
—CNN Money, 9 Feb. 2026
Bankman-Fried was later imprisoned for fraud, and Anthropic’s leadership began to pretend that effective altruism did not exist.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
Some detainees have won asylum protection or agreed to deportation but remain imprisoned indefinitely without court hearings or clear information about their cases.
—Gisela Salomon, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2026
Assistant District Attorney Desmond McCallum said in court Thursday that cellphone and Apple Cloud information suggested Dominque had been imprisoned in the bathroom and a dog crate.
—Charlotte Observer, 5 Feb. 2026
Panahi has been arrested multiple times and imprisoned twice by Iranian authorities for making revelatory, clandestinely shot films like This Is Not a Film and Taxi.
—Yohana Desta, Vanity Fair, 5 Feb. 2026
Routh suggested trading himself for journalists imprisoned in China, protesters held in Iran or prisoners of war suffering in Russia.
—Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 4 Feb. 2026
Thousands more have been imprisoned.
—Shahrnush Parsipur, Time, 3 Feb. 2026
Skylark by Paula McLain Set across two eras in Paris, Skylark follows Alouette Voland, a young woman unjustly imprisoned in the Salpêtrière asylum in 1664, and Kristof Larson, a medical resident in 1939 risking everything to protect his Jewish neighbors during the Nazi occupation.
—Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 31 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for imprisoned
Verb
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He was jailed in January 2021 and moved to an Arctic penal colony in late 2023.—
Kerry Breen,
CBS News,
14 Feb. 2026
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For example, Yasser Abu Shabab, the now-deceased head of one of the gangs, reportedly escaped prison, where he was jailed for drug smuggling.—
Daniel Estrin,
NPR,
13 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Dead Man’s Wire demonstrates the ultimate powerlessness of both captor and captive.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
5 Feb. 2026
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Noa Marciano while she was held captive in Gaza has been eliminated, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced Wednesday.—
Emma Bussey,
FOXNews.com,
5 Feb. 2026
Verb
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One of them was Jon Ossoff, a millennial who had once interned for Congressman John Lewis.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 Feb. 2026
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But during the summer between high school and her freshman year at the California Institute of Technology, Ma interned at Livermore, sitting in front of a computer for eight hours a day in a fruitless search for new planets somewhere between Saturn and Uranus.—
Frances Stead Sellers,
Washington Post,
7 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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There is a program where incarcerated women help prepare meals to feed the community.—
Kynala Phillips,
jsonline.com,
13 Feb. 2026
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Founded in the 1940s as the Central Florida Hygiene Society, the association initially offered mental health care to incarcerated and institutionalized people.—
Michael Cuglietta,
The Orlando Sentinel,
13 Feb. 2026
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“Imprisoned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/imprisoned. Accessed 16 Feb. 2026.
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