PUT BEHIND BARS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does put behind bars mean? 

• PUT BEHIND BARS (verb)
  The verb PUT BEHIND BARS has 1 sense:

1. lock up or confine, in or as in a jail

  Familiarity information: PUT BEHIND BARS used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PUT BEHIND BARS (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lock up or confine, in or as in a jail

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

gaol; immure; imprison; incarcerate; jail; jug; lag; put away; put behind bars; remand

Context example:

the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life

Hypernyms (to "put behind bars" is one way to...):

confine; detain (deprive of freedom; take into confinement)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

They want to put behind bars the prisoners