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Synonyms for jail
dʒeɪljail
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Wiktionary
jailnoun
jailnoun
To imprison.
jailnoun
Confinement in a jail.
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slammerjailnoun
school
I have to go to jail 5 days a week.
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slammerjailnoun
The condition created by the requirement that a horse claimed in a claiming race not be run at another track for some period of time (usually 30 days).
Synonyms:
slammer
Princeton's WordNet
jail, jailhouse, gaol, clink, slammer, poky, pokeyverb
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)
Synonyms:
clink, pokey, poky, slammer, jailhouse, click, gaolimprison, incarcerate, lag, immure, put behind bars, jail, jug, gaol, put away, remandverb
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"
Synonyms:
throw out, toss out, discard, put to sleep, immure, jug, tuck away, toss away, lock, cast away, remand, lock up, remit, shut up, send back, cast aside, put behind bars, fall back, dawdle, dispose, imprison, fall behind, put aside, shut away, cast out, chuck out, toss, throw away, gaol, fling, lock in, lock away, tuck in, lag, put away, incarcerate
Dictionary of English Synonymes
jailnoun
Synonyms:
[written also, but not commonly, Gaol.] prison, penitentiary, bridewell, workhouse, TOLLBOOTH, JUG, house of correction
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "jail":
prison, imprisonment, prisons, thejoint, gaol, slammer, brig, hole, penitentiary, pokey, lockup, incarceration
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Words popularity by usage frequency
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#94 | click | |
#2966 | hole | |
#3411 | lock | |
#4390 | prison | |
#7628 | jail | |
#13907 | prisons | |
#13920 | imprisonment | |
#14447 | lag | |
#14874 | toss | |
#16141 | dispose | |
#17665 | discard | |
#20051 | jug | |
#24731 | remit | |
#27779 | remand | |
#28482 | incarceration | |
#29808 | brig | |
#32886 | fling | |
#44315 | penitentiary | |
#50354 | lockup | |
#55706 | jailhouse | |
#56426 | pokey | |
#57772 | slammer | |
#61103 | gaol | |
#74223 | imprison | |
#75077 | clink | |
#155167 | incarcerate | |
#173014 | poky | |
#218314 | dawdle |
How to use jail in a sentence?
We arrive here with a heavy toll on our health, i have a prostate tumor and Ying has kidney disease. Humphrey, who has disputed allegations of wrongdoing, said during his time in jail, prison officers deliberately obstructed his requests for the appropriate medical attention.
Does that mean we’ve become numb to this? It’s not OK for the president of the United States to say a private citizen should be in jail, it’s not normal. It’s not acceptable. It’s not OK.
I am satisfied there were convictions and now jail terms, but less so in that all this could have been avoided.
The media tells readers what the stakeholders say. Where were Kashmir's stakeholders ? They all were in jail, tell me the day when the stakeholders of Greater Kashmir, be Greater Kashmir the separatists or the mainstream politicians spoke and the press didn't report it ?
In 85% of Washington, we still have rural communities, we still have community-based police. We still have all of these great things. But the trend is let’s follow what Seattle is doing, because they said, ‘Well, we don’t arrest people who are doing drugs in front of cops.’ Well to me, you do that in Lewis County, you get to go to jail, and you know what you get at jail? You get to see mental health. You get to see counselors. And you get a pathway to getting transitional housing.
Translations for jail
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- سجنArabic
- vězeníCzech
- fængselDanish
- GefängnisGerman
- φυλακήGreek
- malliberejoEsperanto
- cárcelSpanish
- زندانPersian
- vankilaanFinnish
- prisonFrench
- bpríosúnIrish
- जेलHindi
- börtönHungarian
- բա� տArmenian
- penjaraIndonesian
- prigioneItalian
- כלאHebrew
- 牢屋Japanese
- ಜೈಲುKannada
- 교도소Korean
- vinculaLatin
- gevangenisDutch
- fengselNorwegian
- więzieniePolish
- cadeiaPortuguese
- temnițăRomanian
- тюрьмаRussian
- fängelseSwedish
- சிறைTamil
- జైలుTelugu
- คุกThai
- hapishaneTurkish
- в'язницяUkrainian
- جیلUrdu
- nhà giamVietnamese
- טורמעYiddish
- 监狱Chinese
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