The confinement of a person in prison or otherwise as punishment for committing a crime.
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"
confine as if in a prison; "His daughters are virtually imprisoned in their own house; he does not let them go out without a chaperone"
To put a person in prison or jail or otherwise confine him as punishment for committing a crime.