prisoning
/ˈprɪzənɪŋ/
verb
- The act of putting someone in prison or keeping them confined.
- The judge was criticized for prisoning the journalist without a fair trial.
- They were prisoning the captured soldiers in a small, dark cell.
- The government is prisoning protesters who speak out against the law.
- Trapping or confining someone or something in a place or situation they cannot escape.
- Her fear of failure was prisoning her in a job she hated.
- The ice was prisoning the boat in the frozen lake.
- The thick walls were prisoning the heat inside the room.
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