IMPRISONED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does imprisoned mean? 

• IMPRISONED (adjective)
  The adjective IMPRISONED has 1 sense:

1. being in captivity

  Familiarity information: IMPRISONED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMPRISONED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Being in captivity

Synonyms:

captive; confined; imprisoned; jailed

Similar:

unfree (hampered and not free; not able to act at will)

 Context examples 

It was the old, indomitable, terrible Wolf Larsen, imprisoned somewhere within that flesh which had once been so invincible and splendid.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

You have been brought there to personate someone, and the real person is imprisoned in this chamber.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She did not remember the lout, nor the imprisoned soul, nor the man who had stared at her in all masculineness and delighted and frightened her.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Immediately after such fights he had always been imprisoned again.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

So after that she took no food to the imprisoned Lion; but every day she came to the gate at noon and asked, "Are you ready to be harnessed like a horse?"

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Then he, and the crate in which he was imprisoned, began a passage through many hands.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

The evening was now drawing close, and well I knew that at sunset the Thing, which was till then imprisoned there, would take new freedom and could in any of many forms elude all pursuit.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He never said who was the real offender, though he smarted for it next day, and was imprisoned so many hours that he came forth with a whole churchyard-full of skeletons swarming all over his Latin Dictionary.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I conjured him to conceal from all persons what I had told him of the Houyhnhnms; because the least hint of such a story would not only draw numbers of people to see me, but probably put me in danger of being imprisoned, or burnt by the Inquisition.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

There would be recesses in my mind which would be only mine, to which he never came, and sentiments growing there fresh and sheltered which his austerity could never blight, nor his measured warrior-march trample down: but as his wife—at his side always, and always restrained, and always checked—forced to keep the fire of my nature continually low, to compel it to burn inwardly and never utter a cry, though the imprisoned flame consumed vital after vital—this would be unendurable.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)