jail
verb/dʒeɪl/
/dʒeɪl/
(also British English, old-fashioned gaol)
[usually passive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they jail | /dʒeɪl/ /dʒeɪl/ |
| he / she / it jails | /dʒeɪlz/ /dʒeɪlz/ |
| past simple jailed | /dʒeɪld/ /dʒeɪld/ |
| past participle jailed | /dʒeɪld/ /dʒeɪld/ |
| -ing form jailing | /ˈdʒeɪlɪŋ/ /ˈdʒeɪlɪŋ/ |
- to put somebody in prison synonym imprison
- be jailed (for something) He was jailed for life for murder.
Extra ExamplesTopics Crime and punishmentb2- She was jailed for ten years.
- One man was arrested and jailed for biting a police officer.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryJail is used with these nouns as the object:- dissident
Word OriginMiddle English: based on Latin cavea. The word came into English in two forms, jaiole from Old French and gayole from Anglo-Norman French gaole (surviving in the spelling gaol), originally pronounced with a hard g, as in goat.
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