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Jailed

adjective

Being in captivity. Synonyms: captive, confined, imprisoned.

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... house. His poor old team could no longer face the cold wind without danger of freezing, and so he walked to the store for the mail and the groceries. They lived on boiled potatoes and bacon, suffering like prisoners—jailed innocently. He hovered about the stove, feeding it twisted bundles of hay till he grew yellow with the tanning effect of the smoke, while Blanche cowered in her chair, ...

— The Moccasin Ranch - A Story of Dakota • Hamlin Garland

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... is as plain as the ink on the paper. It is intended for use against Feisul, first by making the British suspicious of him, second by providing the French with an excuse to attack him, third by convicting him of treachery, for which he can be jailed or executed after he is caught. What do you propose to do ...

— Affair in Araby • Talbot Mundy

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... leave his diocese in a lot healthier condition than he'd found it, that was one thing for sure. And most of the gang of thugs and plug-uglies who had been used to intimidate and control the Hunters' Co-operative had been gathered up and jailed on vagrancy charges; prisoners were being put to work ...

— Four-Day Planet • Henry Beam Piper

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Words linked to "Jailed" : captive, imprisoned, unfree