imprisons
Sayim-PRIZ-uhnz/ɪmˈpɹɪzənz/
- 1Third-person singular present of imprison.
The regime imprisons journalists who criticize its policies.
Fear imprisons her more effectively than any locked door.
Note
The -s form a singular subject calls for in the present: the state imprisons, but they imprison, and I or you imprison too. The verb is transitive, so it always needs an object: someone or something is imprisoned. It works literally and figuratively alike. The same form serves for a regime jailing its critics and for fear or grief holding a person captive.
imprisons 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 → imprisons: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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