Jail and Secure

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

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Secure and jail are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Secure" instead the word "Jail" as a verb or an adjective.

Nearby Words: jailed, jailer, jailing, jailor

Secure verb - To drive danger or attack away from.

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Jail and secure are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Jail" instead the word "Secure" as a verb or an adjective.

Nearby Words: security, secured, securing, securely

Poet repaying Kareem Said's efforts to secure his release by not only blowing it and getting sent back to jail, but later publicly humiliating Said over the latter's relationship with a white woman.

Source: Series / Oz
It may not be the conventional way to do it, but "Profiler, Profiled" saw Morgan being sent to jail on a tip by the episode's UnSub, forcing the team to investigate in order to secure his release.

Source: Badass in Distress
False Reassurance: Inverted: A Nazi war criminal is able to secure his release from prison by telling the main characters that, in his flashforward, a murder had been his "Get out of Jail Free" Card.

Source: Series / FlashForward (2009)

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