prisoned
Held behind bars
Prisoned is the past tense and past participle of prison used as a verb, meaning confined or imprisoned.
The usage is literary and old-fashioned: The prince lay prisoned in the tower.
In contemporary English, imprisoned has largely displaced it, leaving prisoned mostly to poetry and historical fiction.
Basic unit of life
- barsRods, taverns, or measures
- inmateConfined facility resident
- wardenSupervisory custodian of place
- captivityState of being confined
detention · custody · lockup · penitentiary · gaol · jailhouse · correctional · detainee
Unable to escape
shackled · confined · restricted · constrained · oppressed · suffocated · stifled · enslaved
State of being alone
- seclusionVoluntary withdrawal from society
- lonelinessState of lacking companions
- withdrawalAct of taking away
- separatenessState of being apart
detachment · alienation · hermitage · self-exile · trapped · cut off · shut away · walled in
cell
Basic unit of life
captivity · detention · custody · lockup · penitentiary · gaol · jailhouse · correctional · detainee · shackles
trapped
Unable to escape
fettered · shackled · confined · restricted · constrained · oppressed · suffocated · stifled · enslaved · burdened
solitude
State of being alone
- seclusionVoluntary withdrawal from society
- lonelinessState of lacking companions
- withdrawalAct of taking away
separateness · detachment · alienation · hermitage · self-exile · trapped · cut off · shut away · walled in · sequestered
dungeon
Subterranean prison chamber
chains · languish · incarcerate · immure · entomb · banished · exiled · forsaken · condemned · doomed
prisonedfreed
Released from confinement
liberated · released · free · unchained · unconfined
prisonedliberated
Released from confinement
freed · emancipated · unshackled · unfettered · unchained
prisonedfree
Without payment or restriction
liberated · emancipated · autonomous · independent · self-governing
- prison cellLocked room for inmates
- prison breakEscape from custody
- in prisonConfined for crimes
- prison sentenceMandated period of incarceration
- prisoner of warDetained military personnel
- take no prisonersPursue victory without mercy
prison, prisoner, imprison, imprisoned, imprisonment, prisoners, imprisons, imprisoner, imprisonable