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prisão — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • arrest verb To take someone into custody under legal authority, typically on suspicion of a crime.
  • prison noun A secure institution where people are held, usually as punishment after being convicted of a serious crime, or while awaiting trial.

Senses

prisão is used for these senses in English:

  • arrest (legal) The process of arresting a criminal, suspect etc.
  • arrest A confinement, detention, as after an arrest.
  • clothes peg (British, Australia, NZ, Canada) An object (usually made of wood or plastic) used to attach wet laundry to a clothesline so that it (the laundry) can dry.
  • prison A place or institution where people are held against their will, in the US especially for long-term confinement, as of those convicted of serious crimes or otherwise considered undesirable by the government.
  • prison (uncountable) Confinement in prison.

arrest — full definition

  1. verb To take someone into custody under legal authority, typically on suspicion of a crime.
  2. verb To stop or slow down a process or movement.
  3. noun The act of taking someone into legal custody.

prison — full definition

  1. noun A secure institution where people are held, usually as punishment after being convicted of a serious crime, or while awaiting trial.
  2. noun Any situation or place that feels confining or inescapable, even without literal bars.

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