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. 1. A place where persons are confined, or restrained of personal liberty; hence, a place or state o Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name. Ps. cxlii. 7. The tyrant Æolus, . . . With power imperial, curbs the struggling winds, And sounding tempests in dark prisons binds. Dryden. 2. Specifically, a building for the safe custody or confinement of criminals and others committed by lawful authority. Prison bars, or Prison base. See Base, n., 24. -- Prison breach. (Law) See Note under 3d Escape, n., 4. -- Prison house, a prison. Shak. -- Prison ship (Naut.), a ship fitted up for the confinement of prisoners. -- Prison van, a carriage in which prisoners are conveyed to and from prison. 1. To imprison; to shut up in, or as in, a prison; to confine; to restrain from liberty. The prisoned eagle dies for rage. Sir W. Scott. His true respect will prison false desire. Shak. 2. To bind (together); to enchain. [Obs.] Sir William Crispyn with the duke was led Together prisoned. Robert of Brunne.
8. 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