Hold and Imprison

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Hold

Hold verb - To have or keep in one's hands.

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Imprison is a synonym for hold in detain topic. In some cases you can use "Imprison" instead a verb "Hold", when it comes to topics like enclose, grasp, shackle.

Nearby Words: holding, holder, holdback

Imprison

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

Usage example: in this society, we try to imprison criminals so that they can't do any more harm

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Hold is a synonym for imprison in activity topic. You can use "Hold" instead a verb "Imprison", if it concerns topics such as confine, incarcerate, shackle.

Nearby Words: imprisonment, imprisoning

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party	hold party	imprison party
people	hold people	imprison people
world	hold world	imprison world

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Quite possibly the best example of this in the series is Warden Kuril, who attempts to knowingly imprison Shepard, the most Badass person in the galaxy, and hold him/her for ransom or sell him/her on the black market as a slave.

Source: Bullying A Dragon / Video Games

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