🇬🇧 Imprison meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

To imprison someone means to lock them up so they cannot leave, usually in a jail or another closed place, as a punishment for doing something very wrong.

The librarian joked that if we hurt the books, she would imprison us in a corner with nothing but dictionaries to read.

My little brother tried to imprison me under a mountain of pillows, but he forgot I have legs.

The pirate captain threatened to imprison anyone who ate his last cookie, then realized he had already eaten it himself.

I tried to imprison a fart by sitting very still, but the smell escaped and betrayed me in front of everyone.

I built a fort to imprison my alarm clock so it couldn’t wake me up, but it still yelled at me through the blankets.

A girl finds a sparrow and does not want to imprison it. Neighbors want to imprison the bird in a box, to imprison it for days, to imprison it for show, to imprison it forever. She begs, opens the box, and lets the sparrow fly free. The neighbors watch, ashamed, while the girl smiles and cries.

This word is at the C1 level, which means it’s part of advanced English. It’s used in sophisticated conversations, professional settings, and academic discussions. Words at this level help you express yourself fluently and precisely in nuanced situations.

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