Search Result for "put_behind_bars":
Wordnet 3.0

VERB (1)

1. lock up or confine, in or as in a jail;
- Example: "The suspects were imprisoned without trial"
- Example: "the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life"
[syn: imprison, incarcerate, lag, immure, put behind bars, jail, jug, gaol, put away, remand]



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

put behind bars
    v 1: 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" [syn: imprison, incarcerate,
         lag, immure, put behind bars, jail, jug, gaol,
         put away, remand]