JAILED
captive, confined, imprisoned, jailed
(adjective) being in captivity
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
jailed
simple past tense and past participle of jail
Anagrams
• Jadiel
Source: Wiktionary
JAIL
Jail, n. Etym: [OE. jaile, gail, gayhol, OF. gaole, gaiole, jaiole,
F. geôle, LL. gabiola, dim. of gabia cage, for L. cavea cavity, cage.
See Cage.]
Definition: A kind of prison; a building for the confinement of persons
held in lawful custody, especially for minor offenses or with
reference to some future judicial proceeding. [Written also gaol.]
This jail I count the house of liberty. Milton.
Jail bird, a prisoner; one who has been confined in prison. [Slang] -
- Jail delivery, the release of prisoners from jail, either legally
or by violence.
– Jail delivery commission. See under Gaol.
– Jail fever (Med.), typhus fever, or a disease resembling it,
generated in jails and other places crowded with people; -- called
also hospital fever, and ship fever.
– Jail liberties, or Jail limits, a space or district around a jail
within which an imprisoned debtor was, on certain conditions, allowed
to go at large. Abbott.
– Jail lock, a peculiar form of padlock; -- called also
Scandinavian lock.
Jail, v. t.
Definition: To imprison. [R.] T. Adams (1614).
[Bolts] that jail you from free life. Tennyson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition