Definitions for imprisons

imprisons im·pris·on

Spelling: [im-priz-uh n]
IPA: /ɪmˈprɪz ən/

Imprisons is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 255 anagrams from letters in imprisons (iimnoprss).

Definitions for imprisons

verb (used with object)

  1. to confine in or as if in a prison.

Origin of imprisons

1250-1300; Middle English enprisonen Old French enprisoner, equivalent to en- en-1 + prison prison + -er infinitive suffix

Examples for imprisons

A man may arrest his own slave, and he may also imprison for safe-keeping the runaway slave of a friend.

But the villagers, headed by the chief Manyenga, takes his money and imprison him.

It is in self-seeking and advancement that we narrow our faculties and imprison our natures.

They voted to imprison people convicted of being gay for two years and six months.

If they imprison you for resisting their tyrannies, others will take your place.

Who has the right to imprison and assign the terms and conditions to the imprisoned?

And then, too, what fine jokers are those fellows who imprison art in a toy-box!

Elsewhere, she tells her inamorata, “It does not matter if you elude my arms/my dear, when thought alone can imprison you.”

It was ‘us vs. them,’ and ‘we need to kill or imprison them all.’

Why did it take so long to imprison the men responsible for this terrible crime?

Word Value for imprisons
Scrable

12

Words with friends

15

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