Hold
Hold noun - A place of confinement for persons held in lawful custody.
Usage example: upon hearing the guilty verdict, the accused realized that he would lie in that godforsaken hold for the remainder of his life
Jail is a synonym for hold. In some cases you can use "Jail" instead the word "Hold" as a verb or a noun.
Jail
How words are described
| emotional | emotional hold | emotional jail |
| old | old hold | old jail |
| high | high hold | high jail |
| full | full hold | full jail |
| Other adjectives: many, dead, brutal, small, strong, actual, big, outside, magical, bigger, industrial. | ||
Common collocations
| times | hold times | jail times |
Both words in one sentence
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Sarcasm Mode:Joe Danby: But you always said there was never a jail built that could hold a Danby!
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None of them are punished for it, as Captain Kobayashi states that they don't have a jail big enough to hold all of those cadets.
Source: Manga / Knights of Sidonia -
Tailor-Made Prison: The jail worlds, which are implied to have been constructed specifically to hold The Stranger.
Source: Video Game / Furi
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