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Definition of Imprison
Imprison

To put in prison or jail; To arrest and detain in custody; to confine.

To limit, restrain, or confine in any way.

Related Definitions:
And, Any, Arrest, Confine, Custody, Detain, In, Jail, Limit, Or, Prison, Put, Restrain, To, Way


Imprison Quotations

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
Winston Churchill

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
Mohandas Gandhi

The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
Lyndon B. Johnson

If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.
Ralph Ellison

What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.
Willa Cather

Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.
Emile M. Cioran

If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!
James Connolly

I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences.
Ella Maillart

Every one with this writ may be a tyrant; if this commission be legal, a tyrant in a legal manner, also, may control, imprison, or murder any one within the realm.
James Otis

There is no man who desires as passionately as a Russian. If we could imprison a Russian desire beneath a fortress, that fortress would explode.
Joseph De Maistre

Imprison Translations

imprison in Dutch is gevangen zetten, opsluiten
imprison in French is confiner
imprison in German is einkerkern
imprison in Italian is carcerare
imprison in Norwegian is fengsle
imprison in Spanish is recluir, encarcelar


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