imprisoned
im-PRIZ-uhnd/ɪmˈpɹɪzənd/
- 1Simple past and past participle of imprison.
The regime imprisoned thousands of dissidents during the crackdown.
She had been imprisoned for nearly a decade before the verdict was overturned.
Note
One spelling does two jobs here, as with any regular -ed verb: the plain past (they imprisoned him) and the participle after have or be. Because imprison is transitive, the passive is where the participle does most of its work, as in she was imprisoned for years. The same form also stretches to the figurative 'as if in prison' reading, as in a mind imprisoned by fear.
imprisoned is a form of imprison
imprison, verb: To put someone in prison, or to confine them somewhere against their will as if in prison. Full entry
- Forms
- imprisonimprisons he/she/itimprisoning -ing formimprisoned past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- imprison → imprisoned: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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