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" confine as if in a prison; "His daughters are virtually imprisoned in their own house; he does not let them go out without a chaperone
If someone is imprisoned, they are locked up or kept somewhere, usually in prison as a punishment for a crime or for political opposition. The local priest was imprisoned for 18 months on charges of anti-state agitation Dutch colonial authorities imprisoned him for his part in the independence movement
confine as if in a prison; "His daughters are virtually imprisoned in their own house; he does not let them go out without a chaperone"