Thesaurus: prison

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1. n. A place where persons are confined, or restrained of personal liberty; hence, a place or state o/ confinement, restraint, or safe custody.
2. n. Specifically, a building for the safe custody or confinement of criminals and others committed by lawful authority.
3. v. t. To imprison; to shut up in, or as in, a prison; to confine; to restrain from liberty.
4. v. t. To bind (together); to enchain.
5. n. a correctional institution where persons are confined while on trial or for punishment
6. n. a prisonlike situation; a place of seeming confinement
7. n:100 n. a correctional institution where persons are confined while on trial or for punishment n. a prisonlike situation; a place of seeming confinement