825 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ d͡ʒˈe͡ɪl], [ d‍ʒˈe‍ɪl], [ dʒ_ˈeɪ_l]

Similar words for jail:

• big house (noun)
• cage (noun)
• captivity (noun)
• clink (noun)
• confinement (noun)
• enclosure (noun)
• gaol (noun)
• jail (noun)
• other relevant words (noun)
• penal institution (noun)
• place for incarceration (noun)
• prison (noun)
• punishment device (noun)
• reformatory (noun)
• school (noun)
• arrest (verb)
• cage (verb)
• confine (verb)
• constrain (verb)
• detain (verb)
• enclose (verb)
• enslave (verb)
• imprison (verb)
• incarcerate (verb)
• restrain (verb)
• run in (verb)
• sentence (verb)
• other synonyms
• enclose
• immure
• imprison
• other relevant words
• restrain
• other relevant words (noun)

Paraphrases for jail

Synonyms for Jail:

• n.

  •
  • intern,
  • commit,
  • hold someone for ransom,
  • institutionalize.
  •
  • can.
  • big house (noun)
  • big schools,
  • detention facilities,
  • big cages,
  • big-house,
  • house correction,
  • city hotels,
  • the rivers,
  • house detention,
  • calabooses.
  • cage (noun)
  • pinfolds.
  • captivity (noun)
  • vassalages,
  • subjections.
  • clink (noun)
  • clink.
  • confinement (noun)
  • de limitation,
  • boundings,
  • constrainments,
  • de-limitations,
  • de limitations,
  • immurations,
  • de-limitation.
  • enclosure (noun)
  • barrier,
  • envelopment,
  • trap.
  • gaol (noun)
  • gaol.
  • jail (noun)
  • lag,
  • jailhouse,
  • slammer,
  • jug.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • impoundment,
  • correctional institution,
  • correctional facility,
  • pinfold,
  • internments,
  • thralldom,
  • city hotel,
  • detention facility,
  • constrainment,
  • pen,
  • big school,
  • confinement,
  • iceboxes,
  • committal,
  • serfdom,
  • training school,
  • penal institution,
  • house of detention,
  • enclosure,
  • committals,
  • penitentiary,
  • icebox,
  • reformatory,
  • Calaboose,
  • custody,
  • delimitations,
  • prison,
  • vassalage,
  • impoundments,
  • durances,
  • the river,
  • subjection,
  • immuration,
  • cage,
  • big cage,
  • internment,
  • captivity,
  • delimitation,
  • durance.
  • penal institution (noun)
  • penal colonies,
  • penal colony,
  • prisoner-of-war camp,
  • military prison,
  • prisoner of war camp.
  • place for incarceration (noun)
  • dungeon,
  • brig,
  • cell,
  • stockade,
  • rack,
  • cooler,
  • lockup,
  • pound.
  • prison (noun)
  • bridle,
  • stronghold,
  • Alcatraz,
  • irons,
  • pinion,
  • keep,
  • harness,
  • straight jacket,
  • vise,
  • tether,
  • collar,
  • handcuff,
  • shackle,
  • coop,
  • pillory,
  • fence,
  • San Quentin,
  • oubliette,
  • manacle,
  • reform school.
  • punishment device (noun)
  • maiden,
  • gibbet,
  • thong,
  • gas chamber,
  • rope,
  • stake,
  • truncheon,
  • cane,
  • rod,
  • cowhide,
  • lash,
  • noose,
  • stocks,
  • block,
  • whip,
  • guillotine,
  • ax,
  • whipping post,
  • gallows,
  • strap,
  • rawhide,
  • iron,
  • scaffold,
  • solitary confinement,
  • thumbscrew,
  • torture chamber,
  • electric chair,
  • bull whip,
  • birch rod,
  • switch.
  • reformatory (noun)
  • correctional institutions,
  • correctional facilities.
  • school (noun)
  • Seminaries,
  • schoolhouse,
  • halls of ivy,
  • seminary.

• v.

  • arrest (verb)
  • putting cuffs on,
  • puts arm on,
  • puts the arm on,
  • tosses jail,
  • takes prisoner,
  • put cuffs on,
  • tossed jail,
  • putting the arm on,
  • gloms,
  • tost in jail,
  • tossing in jail,
  • glomming,
  • tossed in jail,
  • tossing jail,
  • putting the cuffs on,
  • toss jail,
  • tost jail,
  • putting arm on,
  • tosses in jail,
  • put arm on,
  • glommed,
  • took prisoner,
  • taking prisoner,
  • puts cuffs on,
  • puts the cuffs on.
  • cage (verb)
  • coops up,
  • closes in,
  • cooping up,
  • shuts in,
  • fences in,
  • shutting in,
  • fencing in.
  • confine (verb)
  • in-terns,
  • re-presses,
  • putting ice,
  • put ice,
  • puts lid on,
  • de limiting,
  • in-tern,
  • de limits,
  • de-limited,
  • puts ice,
  • de limited,
  • putting on ice,
  • de-limiting,
  • re-pressing,
  • de-limits,
  • re-press,
  • de limit,
  • re strict,
  • in tern,
  • putting lid on,
  • puts a lid on,
  • re presses,
  • in terns,
  • putting a lid on,
  • re pressing,
  • de-limit,
  • re-strict,
  • re press,
  • puts on ice,
  • re pressed,
  • hog tie,
  • sending up,
  • cools down.
  • constrain (verb)
  • dis-allowing,
  • holds in,
  • kept lid on,
  • concusses,
  • keeping lid on,
  • dis-allow,
  • dis allowed,
  • putting half nelson on,
  • puts half nelson on,
  • dis allow,
  • with held,
  • holding down,
  • cools off,
  • with-holds,
  • holds down,
  • cooled off,
  • with-hold,
  • with holds,
  • with hold,
  • with-held,
  • dis-allows,
  • with holding,
  • dis-allowed,
  • dis allowing,
  • dis allows,
  • keeps lid on.
  • detain (verb)
  • de-tain,
  • re-serves,
  • slowing down,
  • de-lays,
  • re serving,
  • re serve,
  • de-laying,
  • slowing up,
  • hanging up,
  • de-lay,
  • hangs up,
  • de-tains,
  • slows up,
  • re served,
  • re-served,
  • slows down,
  • de tains,
  • de tain,
  • re-serving,
  • de lays,
  • de laying,
  • de lay,
  • hanged up,
  • re-serve.
  • enclose (verb)
  • co-oping,
  • walled in,
  • in ducts,
  • fencing off,
  • in ducting,
  • co oped,
  • in-ducting,
  • Mured,
  • co-oped,
  • boxing up,
  • in-ducted,
  • boxed up,
  • in sert,
  • walls in,
  • in ducted,
  • in-ducts,
  • boxes up,
  • in duct,
  • in-sert,
  • fences off,
  • blocking off,
  • co oping,
  • locks in,
  • walling in,
  • muring,
  • in-duct,
  • blocks off.
  • enslave (verb)
  • get hooks in to,
  • in dentures,
  • puts irons,
  • gat hooks into,
  • sub dues,
  • got hooks in to,
  • re-duces,
  • putting irons,
  • dis-enfranchised,
  • dis franchising,
  • in-denture,
  • put irons,
  • dis-enfranchise,
  • sub-dues,
  • dis enfranchises,
  • dis franchised,
  • re duce,
  • in-dentures,
  • getting hooks in to,
  • dis enfranchising,
  • sub due,
  • keeps under thumb,
  • keeping under thumb,
  • dis-franchises,
  • puts in irons,
  • got hooks into,
  • dis-franchised,
  • gotten hooks into,
  • sub-jugate,
  • gets hooks into,
  • putting in irons,
  • dis enfranchised,
  • dis franchises,
  • dis franchise,
  • re duces,
  • gat hooks in to,
  • getting hooks into,
  • kept under thumb,
  • dis-franchise,
  • sub jugate,
  • disenfranchises,
  • gotten hooks in to,
  • disfranchises,
  • in denture,
  • dis-franchising,
  • dis enfranchise,
  • dis-enfranchising,
  • dis-enfranchises,
  • sub-due,
  • re-duce,
  • gets hooks in to.
  • imprison (verb)
  • condemn,
  • fetter,
  • impound.
  • incarcerate (verb)
  • book,
  • throw away the keys,
  • throw in dungeon.
  • restrain (verb)
  • keeps down,
  • pre vents,
  • re-strained,
  • re-straining,
  • re straining,
  • de bars,
  • de barring,
  • re strained,
  • re-strains,
  • cracks down,
  • choked back,
  • choking back,
  • pre vent,
  • pro scribe,
  • keep line,
  • de-barring,
  • keeps in line,
  • cracking down,
  • pre-venting,
  • pro scribed,
  • kept in line,
  • pre venting,
  • re-strain,
  • pro scribes,
  • de barred,
  • sate on,
  • pre-vent,
  • keeping in line,
  • de-bars,
  • chokes back,
  • pro-scribed,
  • keeps line,
  • pro-scribe,
  • de-bar,
  • re strain,
  • keeping line,
  • de-barred,
  • kept line,
  • re strains,
  • cracked down,
  • pro scribing,
  • pre-vented,
  • de bar,
  • pre-vents,
  • sits on,
  • keeping down.
  • run in (verb)
  • throwing in jail,
  • threw in jail,
  • threw jail,
  • take in to custody,
  • throws jail,
  • throw jail,
  • throwing jail,
  • throws in jail.
  • sentence (verb)
  • passed judgment,
  • throwing the book at,
  • de-vote,
  • took the fall,
  • taking the fall,
  • de-votes,
  • passing judgment,
  • de votes,
  • took fall,
  • passes judgment,
  • taking fall,
  • de-voting,
  • threw the book at,
  • takes the fall,
  • de voted,
  • take fall,
  • throws the book at,
  • takes fall,
  • de-voted,
  • de voting,
  • de vote.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • send down,
  • house of correction,
  • wall up,
  • big house,
  • hoosegow.
  •
  • bang up,
  • take down.
  •
  • throw.
  •
  • hold.
  • enclose
  • encases,
  • box up,
  • locking in,
  • sets apart,
  • encase,
  • Mures,
  • blockaded,
  • enclosed,
  • encasing,
  • fenced off,
  • wall in,
  • environ,
  • setting apart,
  • Mure,
  • locked in,
  • mew,
  • enshrouded,
  • blockading,
  • fence off,
  • block off,
  • lock in,
  • set apart.
  • immure
  • Cloistering,
  • entomb,
  • Walling,
  • walled.
  • imprison
  • bastille,
  • keep in custody,
  • hold hostage,
  • Closeting,
  • closeted,
  • Remanded,
  • remand,
  • keep captive,
  • bastilles,
  • send to prison,
  • imprisoned,
  • rail in,
  • hold captive,
  • occlude,
  • Stockading,
  • put behind bars,
  • hold in custody,
  • Stockaded,
  • Remanding,
  • remands.
  • Other relevant words:
  • Disfranchising,
  • Copped,
  • tabbed,
  • disfranchised,
  • cooling off,
  • cooled down,
  • ice,
  • put the cuffs on,
  • corked,
  • closing in,
  • holds back,
  • detain,
  • lock up,
  • meted out,
  • indenture,
  • railroaded,
  • close in,
  • shut in,
  • slow down,
  • glom,
  • hem in,
  • locks up,
  • send up,
  • Incarcerated,
  • meting out,
  • Subjecting,
  • Gaffed,
  • buttonholed,
  • take prisoner,
  • enslave,
  • enchaining,
  • closed in,
  • keep under thumb,
  • mete out,
  • pick up,
  • slow up,
  • set back,
  • fenced in,
  • Gaffing,
  • gaff,
  • disfranchise,
  • cooped up,
  • disenfranchised,
  • Dooming,
  • hold in,
  • take away,
  • buttonholing,
  • put the arm on,
  • held down,
  • inhibits,
  • interning,
  • put lid on,
  • buttonholes,
  • withholds,
  • sentence,
  • slowed down,
  • enchained,
  • immure,
  • arrest,
  • throw the book at,
  • enslaved,
  • send up the river,
  • locked up,
  • confine,
  • throw in jail,
  • put under lock and key,
  • fence in,
  • holding in,
  • enchains,
  • nick,
  • incarcerate,
  • fettered,
  • slowed up,
  • hold down,
  • throw book at,
  • shotgunning,
  • interned,
  • disenfranchising,
  • put away,
  • constrain,
  • railroading,
  • Shotguns,
  • hobble,
  • gaffs,
  • concussed,
  • pressurized,
  • cool off,
  • cool down,
  • take the fall,
  • coop up,
  • sentences,
  • pressurizes,
  • tabbing,
  • put on ice,
  • put half nelson on,
  • shotgunned,
  • run in,
  • copping,
  • Indenturing,
  • concussing,
  • concuss,
  • taking away,
  • shotgun,
  • took away,
  • toss in jail,
  • pressurizing,
  • iced,
  • enclose,
  • pass judgment,
  • sending up the river,
  • keep lid on,
  • sent up,
  • disenfranchise,
  • put a lid on,
  • locking up,
  • railroad,
  • held in,
  • picked up,
  • restrain,
  • enchain,
  • imprison,
  • sends up,
  • pulling,
  • pressurize,
  • get hooks into,
  • corking,
  • withhold,
  • hang up,
  • Subjected,
  • necessitate,
  • cooling down,
  • put in irons,
  • buttonhole,
  • metes out.
  • restrain
  • hogtie,
  • keep in line,
  • pulls back,
  • sit on,
  • pinioned,
  • pinions,
  • crack down,
  • pull back,
  • ties down,
  • kept down,
  • Manacling,
  • tie down,
  • pulling back,
  • Pinioning,
  • pulled back,
  • Manacled,
  • tying down,
  • keep down,
  • sitting on,
  • choke back,
  • Harnessing,
  • tied down.
  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • limbo,
  • pokey,
  • shut up,
  • bind,
  • chokey,
  • able,
  • distribute,
  • loud,
  • inside,
  • throw out,
  • culprit,
  • run,
  • caboose,
  • hood,
  • lusty,
  • blockade,
  • bucket,
  • house,
  • bullpen,
  • industrial school,
  • pinch,
  • bound,
  • intense,
  • fortress,
  • chuck out,
  • shut,
  • fold,
  • chink,
  • bagnio,
  • bust,
  • imprisonment,
  • Bridewell,
  • tuck away,
  • den,
  • workhouse,
  • fling,
  • captivating,
  • bring in,
  • lock,
  • college,
  • cast in prison,
  • PERP,
  • apprehensive,
  • nab,
  • escape,
  • stir,
  • choky,
  • tuck in,
  • pocket,
  • Quod,
  • clap up,
  • click,
  • cogent,
  • scape,
  • contain,
  • labor camp,
  • clack,
  • athletic,
  • penal settlement,
  • donjon,
  • perpetrator,
  • poky,
  • surround,
  • include,
  • encircle,
  • enshrine,
  • convict,
  • high,
  • influential,
  • guardhouse,
  • eat up,
  • dismiss,
  • inmate,
  • potent,
  • prison house,
  • beset,
  • cast out,
  • Misdemeanant,
  • chamber,
  • corral,
  • black hole,
  • cast aside,
  • outlaw,
  • holding cell,
  • dawdle,
  • adjust,
  • detention camp,
  • stable,
  • concentration camp,
  • send-up,
  • discard,
  • kennel,
  • federal prison,
  • safe,
  • captivate,
  • jingle,
  • congee,
  • in prison,
  • hamper,
  • hedge in,
  • put to sleep,
  • malefactor,
  • state prison,
  • inclosure,
  • good,
  • beleaguer,
  • encompass,
  • cadre,
  • lock away,
  • dispose,
  • crook,
  • Borstal,
  • besiege,
  • hearty,
  • prison camp,
  • bottle up,
  • joint,
  • fall behind,
  • station,
  • death row,
  • wrap,
  • hold prisoner,
  • yard,
  • Thana,
  • offender,
  • hulks,
  • shrine,
  • freezer,
  • steady,
  • heavy,
  • worried,
  • delinquent,
  • school,
  • internment camp,
  • tollbooth,
  • station house,
  • toss out,
  • sturdy,
  • Leaguer,
  • take into custody,
  • watch house,
  • get off,
  • shut away,
  • coop in,
  • quarantine,
  • forced-labor camp,
  • Bilboes,
  • vase,
  • hoodlum,
  • cordon,
  • guardroom,
  • ewer,
  • vandal,
  • rock pile,
  • ring,
  • jar,
  • criminal,
  • toss away,
  • remit,
  • thug,
  • abandon,
  • bolt in,
  • strong,
  • concerned,
  • up the river,
  • condemned cell,
  • circumscribe,
  • clank,
  • hard,
  • gulag,
  • enrapture,
  • hole,
  • pen in,
  • solid,
  • solitary,
  • robust,
  • cordon off,
  • make one's escape,
  • felon,
  • scofflaw,
  • throw away,
  • compass,
  • supervise,
  • apprehend,
  • prisoner,
  • stay,
  • fall back,
  • rattle,
  • box in,
  • death house,
  • cast away,
  • Panopticon,
  • send back,
  • incarceration,
  • restrict,
  • toss,
  • borstal institution,
  • forcible,
  • tolbooth.

Paraphrases for Jail:

• Equivalence

  • Proper noun, singular
    jailed.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    gaol.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    lockup, jailing.

• Independent

  • Proper noun, singular
    gets.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    arrest, dive, slammer, stockade, thejoint.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    penitentiary, prison.
  • Proper noun, singular
    penitentiary, prison, Penitentiaries, Prisons.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    incarceration, penitentiary, prison.
  • Interjection
    prison.
  • Verb, base form
    prison.