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Defenition of the word jail

    • Defenition of the word jail

      • A place in which individual persons have restricted personal freedom.
      • Putting someone in prison or in jail.
      • lock up in jail
      • a place used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence)
      • a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence)
      • lock up or confine, in or as in a jail; "The suspects were imprisoned without trial"; "the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life"
      • lock up or confine, in or as in a jail

    Synonyms for the word jail

      • clink
      • gaol
      • immure
      • imprison
      • incarcerate
      • jailhouse
      • jug
      • lag
      • prison
      • put away
      • put behind bars
      • remand

    Hyponyms for the word jail

      • bastille
      • holding cell
      • hoosegow
      • hoosgow
      • house of correction
      • lockup
      • pokey
      • workhouse

    Hypernyms for the word jail

      • confine
      • correctional institution
      • detain

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