imprison

verbs

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"

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

is derived from

is derived from

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"

imprison

is derived from

is a type of (narrower)

deprive of freedom; take into confinement