Capture and Jail

Capture

Capture verb - To receive as return for effort.

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Jail and capture are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Jail" instead a verb "Capture".

Nearby Words: captive, captured, captor, capturing

Jail verb - To put in or as if in prison.

Usage example: threatened to jail the punks if they so much as jaywalked

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Capture and jail are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Capture" instead a verb "Jail".

Nearby Words: jailed, jailer, jailing, jailor

human	human capture	human jail
high	high capture	high jail
full	full capture	full jail
normal	normal capture	normal jail
Other adjectives: certain, dead, small, actual, potential, new, mundane, alive.

In the Tales Series, player characters get themselves thrown into jail or capture under player control fairly often - this has happened in Phantasia, Innocence, Symphonia, and Vesperia.

Source: Controllable Helplessness
After Logan is caught and spends 2 years in jail, the traitor comes back to demand the diamond that Logan hid before his capture.

Source: No Honor Among Thieves
The bad guys capture John Wayne and threaten to kill a hostage if he doesn't cooperate, then walk into the jail with him posing as federal marshalls.

Source: Trojan Prisoner

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