- captive, confined, imprisoned, jailed - in captivity
Antonym: free (indirect, via unfree)
- imprison, incarcerate, lag, immure, put behind bars, jail, jug, gaol, put away, remand - lock up or confine, in or as in a jail; "The suspects were imprisoned without trial"; "the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life"
--1 is one way to confine, detain
Sample sentence:Derived forms: noun jailer1, noun jailor1, noun jail1
They want to jail the prisoners