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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
imprison .
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Examples
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"'At that I corrals the chickens an' imprisons 'em in the r'ar of the side-bar an 'goes a-weavin' back for camp, an 'I picks up three more shawl-necks where they sets battin' their he'pless eyes in the road.
Wolfville Nights Alfred Henry Lewis 1885
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The local sheriff imprisons and beats Arlen and Paul, trying to find out what they know.
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A "sin bin" imprisons fouling transgressors for two minutes, a long stretch in games with two seven minute halves.
Alan Black: Homeless World Cup Set to Kick Off Alan Black 2011
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America imprisons more people than any other nation, close to two million inmates.
A Conversation with Marcus Sakey, author of The Blade Itself 2010
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A "sin bin" imprisons fouling transgressors for two minutes, a long stretch in games with two seven minute halves.
Alan Black: Homeless World Cup Set to Kick Off Alan Black 2011
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In many ways, it restricts our lives; it imprisons us.
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Syria, a one-party state with no free elections, harasses and imprisons human-rights activists and other critics of the government.
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A "sin bin" imprisons fouling transgressors for two minutes, a long stretch in games with two seven minute halves.
Alan Black: Homeless World Cup Set to Kick Off Alan Black 2011
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She recently wrote in the Wall Street Journal about the rise of helicopter parenting, "the smothering surveillance of a child's every experience and problem", an approach, she believes, that imprisons women.
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A "sin bin" imprisons fouling transgressors for two minutes, a long stretch in games with two seven minute halves.
Alan Black: Homeless World Cup Set to Kick Off Alan Black 2011
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