jailed 1 of 2

adjective

as in arrested
taken and held prisoner the jailed protestors were noisily demanding to see their lawyers

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jailed

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verb

past tense of jail
as in imprisoned
to put in or as if in prison threatened to jail the punks if they so much as jaywalked

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Recent Examples of jailed
Adjective
On many mornings, shackled migrants plead guilty to military trespass charges rather than remain jailed awaiting trial. — Agnel Philip, ProPublica, 16 Mar. 2026
Verb
Davis anti-transgender activist and school board candidate Beth Bourne was briefly jailed on trespassing charges Tuesday after her arrest outside a Sonoma high school, the Sonoma newspaper reported. — Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 14 Oct. 2026 Individuals can now be fined as much as $5 billion rupiah ($280,000) and jailed up to 15 years. — Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2026 Dateline Canada will premiere with a two-hour special revisiting the wrongful conviction of Robert Baltovich, who was jailed for the murder of then-girlfriend Elizabeth Bain after her disappearance in 1990. — Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 14 Oct. 2026 But unlike other Floridians of Cuban descent — including Secretary of State Marco Rubio — Valdes ended up defending Cuba’s socialist revolutionaries and officials who have killed, jailed, tortured, and censored numerous political enemies. — Hudson Crozier, The Washington Examiner, 9 Oct. 2026 She had been involved in promoting the opposition movement, had seen friends jailed, been a target of accusations and pushed out of a public job. — Katherine Brodsky, Variety, 9 Oct. 2026 Farwell, who has pleaded not guilty, has been jailed since his arrest in August 2024. — Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 9 Oct. 2026 Hanafin was ordered jailed without bail on a charge of being a fugitive from justice. — CBS News, 8 Oct. 2026 The hanged man, John Morgan, had been jailed, tried for murder, and convicted, before escaping jail, getting apprehended, and being executed—all in ten days, Mellinger said. — Oliver Whang, New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for jailed
  1. arrested
  2. imprisoned
  3. captive
  4. interned
  5. incarcerated
Adjective
  • In the case of the arrested teenager, who was detained in early August, agents pulled him and another man out of a truck in the 7-Eleven parking lot.
    — Seth Klamann, Denver Post, 31 Aug. 2026
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Verb
  • The Sentencing Project, an advocacy group that wants fewer people behind bars, reports that white women were imprisoned at a rate of 41 per 100,000 in 2023, while white men were imprisoned at 341 per 100,000, more than eight times as high.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 16 Oct. 2026
  • The pity of the judge who imprisoned them here was cold comfort for a group of people who had little reason to trust any legal authority.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of imprisoned
Adjective
  • According to Mercedes-Benz’s captive finance company, Moore doesn’t legally own the car.
    — Byron Hurd, The Drive, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Along with Cold War Choir Practice, this is her second cult-captive housewife in less than a year.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of captive
Verb
  • Whiting also interned with the campaign of a Parliament candidate while studying abroad in London.
    — Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 10 Oct. 2026
  • Peyton Stewart was a 21-year-old international business major who grew up with her sister in Westwood, New Jersey, studied abroad in London and interned at TikTok.
    — Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2026
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Verb
  • In her experience, the criminal justice system doesn’t do nearly enough to rehabilitate the incarcerated and address the underlying issues, often based in trauma, that lead people to commit crimes.
    — Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Oct. 2026
  • The campaign brings together Fox and Johnson’s boundary-pushing styles and supports Fox’s nonprofit Rosebuds Reading Collective for women who are incarcerated.
    — Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of incarcerated

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