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imprison

英/ɪmpɹˈɪzən/
美/ˌɪmˈpɹɪzən/
01v.

使下狱, 关闭, 拘禁, 限制

lock up or confine, in or as in a jail; confine as if in a prison; he does not let them go out without a chaperone"