imprisoning
- 1Present participle and gerund of imprison.
The regime kept imprisoning dissidents without ever bringing formal charges.
Imprisoning political opponents drew sharp condemnation from human rights groups.
Note
One spelling, two jobs: in "kept imprisoning dissidents" it is the verb in progress, and in "Imprisoning opponents drew condemnation" it heads a noun phrase serving as subject. Because imprison is transitive, both uses normally carry a direct object, the person confined. The verb also covers confinement "as if in prison," so the bars can be figurative: a routine or a fear can be imprisoning someone just as a regime can.
imprisoning 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 → imprisoning: add -ing
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