Imprison
Imprison verb - To put in or as if in prison.
Kill and imprison are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Kill" instead a verb "Imprison".
Nearby Words: imprisonment, imprisoning
Kill
Kill verb - To deprive of life.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Any time SG-1 goes to an alternate reality and it isn't a Crapsack World that tries to imprison/kill them, expect the alternate SG-1 to do this.
Source: Last Stand -
In them, Stalin encouraged the Security Services to have a field day and imprison or kill way more people than was sensible.
Source: The Purge - More or less the same exact thing happens every single time he appears- he makes more Daleks to replace the batch the Doctor has killed, and they turn on and either kill or imprison him soon afterwards.
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Kill and Imprison. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 03, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/imprison/kill
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