imprisoning in English

verb
1
put or keep in prison or a place like a prison.
he was imprisoned for six months for contempt of court
synonyms:incarceratesend to prisonjaillock upput awayinterndetainhold prisonerhold captiveconfineshut upcageput behind bars
verb

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1. Bourgois pleaded guilty to falsely imprisoning Miss Lamplugh and possessing an offensive weapon.

2. The same day, two men were accused of kidnapping five children and imprisoning them in a cave for two weeks.

3. During the second world war, the Nazi party in Germany tried to wipe out God’s people, imprisoning thousands and killing hundreds.

4. The government responded to the insurgency by banning anti-monarchy statements, imprisoning journalists, and shutting down newspapers accused of siding with the insurgents.

5. But allowing a criminal to go free is perhaps the lesser of two evils if the alternative is imprisoning an innocent person.

6. Castillo Armas quickly assumed dictatorial powers, banning opposition parties, imprisoning and torturing political opponents, and reversing the social reforms of the revolution.

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8. Barbara Hershey's portrayal of Nina's mother, Erica, transcends horrifying to become a tour de force of Grand Guignol, and all of it in the spirit of imprisoning, infantilizing love.

9. (Ac 5:40) Saul, who afterward became the apostle Paul, was a fierce persecutor of Christians before his conversion, imprisoning them and flogging them in one synagogue after another.

10. The judgment now places an obligation on Armenia to stop prosecuting and imprisoning individuals whose deeply held religious convictions do not allow them to engage in military service.

11. Stalin proceeded to purge all his domestic opponents as “terrorists,” giving the trials themselves Amalgamationist titles — e.g., the trial of “The Bloc of Rights and Trotskyites” — and imprisoning and killing 10-20 million citizens as supposedly being in league with them

12. During those war-mad years the enemies reached high up into the personnel of Jehovah’s visible organization to hasten the destruction of his people, even to the point of wrongly imprisoning the president and other highly responsible men at the headquarters of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society.