inmate | | |
n. (person) | 1. inmate | one of several resident of a dwelling (especially someone confined to a prison or hospital). |
| ~ occupant, occupier, resident | someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there. |
n. (person) | 2. inmate, inpatient | a patient who is residing in the hospital where he is being treated. |
| ~ patient | a person who requires medical care.; "the number of emergency patients has grown rapidly" |
n. (person) | 3. con, convict, inmate, yard bird, yardbird | a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison. |
| ~ lifer | a prisoner serving a term of life imprisonment. |
| ~ captive, prisoner | a person who is confined; especially a prisoner of war. |
| ~ trusty | a convict who is considered trustworthy and granted special privileges. |
imprison | | |
v. (social) | 1. gaol, immure, imprison, incarcerate, jail, jug, lag, put away, put behind bars, remand | 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" |
| ~ law, jurisprudence | the collection of rules imposed by authority.; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order" |
| ~ detain, confine | deprive of freedom; take into confinement. |
v. (social) | 2. imprison | 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" |
| ~ detain, confine | deprive of freedom; take into confinement. |
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