gefangen halten — meaning in English
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English meaning
- Bastille noun A fortress or prison, especially one associated with harsh or unjust treatment of its inmates.
Senses
gefangen halten is used for these senses in English:
- bastille (transitive, also, figuratively) To confine (someone or something) in, or as if in, a bastille (noun sense 2.1) or prison; to imprison.
Bastille — full definition
- noun A fortress or prison, especially one associated with harsh or unjust treatment of its inmates.
- noun Capitalized: the Bastille, a Paris fortress-prison whose storming by an angry crowd in 1789 marked the start of the French Revolution.
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