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prisoned

verb
SayPRIZ-uhnd/ˈpɹɪzənd/

1 meaning of prisoned

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  1. 1
    verb
    Simple past and past participle of prison.
    Note

    Behind this form stands prison used as a verb, meaning "to imprison" and always taking an object: someone or something is prisoned. One spelling does two jobs. On its own it is the past tense (they prisoned the captives); after have it builds the perfect (he had prisoned them); after be it makes the passive (they were prisoned for years). Swapping in imprisoned changes nothing in meaning, only the word chosen.

prisoned is a form of prison

Forms
prisonprisons he/she/itprisoning -ing formprisoned past tense, past participle
Spelling
prison → prisoned: add -ed

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