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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.
Synonyms:
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?
To put Abdul Rahman in jail would mean a lot of chaos.It would send a bad signal to [the] Uzbek community because of the conflicting political loyalties.
Corona Police Corporal Tobias Kouroubacalis:
We can't imagine the significant amount of pain both the family and friends are feeling right now, but we hope the suspect's arrest will bring some relief knowing that he's in jail now.
Okaloosa County Sheriff Larry Ashley:
Joel Dixon Smith’s Joel Dixon Smith. Joel Dixon Smith was fearful, fearful of going to jail, fearful of losing Joel Dixon Smith firearms, joel Dixon Smith was fearful of everything. Joel Dixon Smith was just Joel Dixon Smith.
I kind of shrug and sometimes smile and laugh about it and then I have a secondary reaction, which is to be horrified at my own numb reaction, right ? we have to remind ourselves the President of the United States of America is publicly announcing that people are committing crimes, that they should be in jail.
It's not the cleanest, it's a very old jail. A lot of people complain about the smell. It has the old basement smell.
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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