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Jailed   /dʒeɪld/   Listen
Jailed

adjective
1.
Being in captivity.  Synonyms: captive, confined, imprisoned.



Jail

verb
1.
Lock up or confine, in or as in a jail.  Synonyms: gaol, immure, imprison, incarcerate, jug, lag, put away, put behind bars, remand.  "The murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life"



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"Jailed" Quotes from Famous Books



... my dad will say to that, when he hears of it?" murmured Roger. "The newspapers are bound to make a spread of it. 'Son of a U. S. Senator Jailed for Blowing Up a Hotel!' or something like that. Oh, it ...
— Dave Porter and the Runaways - Last Days at Oak Hall • Edward Stratemeyer

... pledge ter yer, though." He spoke gruffly, because the sight of her was burning him up too, with another kind of thirst. "I went an' hed myself jailed. I reckon hit won't hardly master me ...
— A Pagan of the Hills • Charles Neville Buck

... be just as it pleased him and as he would have it be." But the biographer contradicted his own beautiful portrait by telling how poor Pierre sang once too well to a married woman, whose husband took him, jailed him, and ...
— The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2 • Rupert Hughes

... particular State she symbolized. So the little girl wore, just under her collar, the picture of a fat beef as an appropriate emblem of Texas, while in one hand she carried a gilded stone to recall California's riches, and, in the other, through the instigation of the grand marshal, who had once been jailed at St. Paul, she held aloft a wad of cotton batting to emphasize the annual snowfall of the rival State to ...
— The Biography of a Prairie Girl • Eleanor Gates

... her uncle; "what's he got to do with it? He's been livin' down in Hepzibah studyin' to be a lawyer—did he have Jeff and Andy jailed?" ...
— Judith of the Cumberlands • Alice MacGowan


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