Definition for Jail:

• A prison; a building or place for the confinement of persons arrested for crime.

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.
  •penal institution (noun)
  • penal colonies,
  • penal colony,
  • prisoner-of-war camp,
  • military prison,
  • prisoner of war camp.
  •place for incarceration (noun)
  • cooler,
  • inside,
  • brig,
  • black hole,
  • joint,
  • detention camp,
  • dungeon,
  • cell,
  • rack,
  • stir,
  • up the river,
  • solitary,
  • lockup,
  • slammer,
  • stockade,
  • pound,
  • bastille,
  • jailhouse,
  • bullpen.
  •prison (noun)
  • keep,
  • vise,
  • handcuff,
  • straight jacket,
  • stronghold,
  • irons,
  • oubliette,
  • coop,
  • San Quentin,
  • manacle,
  • shackle,
  • jug,
  • tether,
  • reform school,
  • collar,
  • pillory,
  • Alcatraz,
  • pinion,
  • harness,
  • fence,
  • bridle.
  •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.
  •put behind bars (noun)
  • put behind bars.
  •reformatory (noun)
  • correctional institutions,
  • correctional facilities.
  •remand (noun)
  • remand.
  •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.
  •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.
  •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.

Paraphrases for Jail:

• Equivalence

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

• Reverse Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    jailing, lockup.

• Independent

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

• Other Related

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

Antonyms for Jail:

• n.

  • Other antonyms:
    outside.

• v.

  • incarcerate
    liberate, free, release, let go.

Jail Sentence Examples:

• " None," I said, " except of how a British jail looks."

• " Take these gypsies to the jail," said the man who had first looked in on Sue and Bunny when the locked doors were opened.