Usually means: Confining someone against their will.
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We found 15 dictionaries that define the word imprisoning:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. imprisoning: Merriam-Webster
  2. imprisoning: Collins English Dictionary
  3. imprisoning: Vocabulary.com
  4. Imprisoning, imprisoning: Wordnik
  5. imprisoning: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. imprisoning: Wiktionary
  7. Imprisoning, imprisoning: Dictionary.com
  8. imprisoning: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Imprisoning: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Imprisoning: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. imprisoning: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. imprisoning: FreeDictionary.org
  13. imprisoning: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. imprisoning: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. imprisoning: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (imprison)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To put in or as if in prison; confine somebody against their will.
▸ Also see imprison


Opposite:
freeing, releasing, liberating

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Opposite:
freeing, releasing, liberating




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