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Definition of jail: 1. A kind of prison; a building for the confinement of persons held in lawful custody, especially for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding.
2. To imprison.

Synonyms:

remand, dispose, joint, fall behind, tuck away, chuck out, pokey, dawdle, lock away, send back, click, slammer, tuck in, toss away, lag, lock, clink, remit, toss, throw away, put aside, hoosegow, throw out, immure, fall back, toss out, shut away, cast out, cast away, shut up, discard, put behind bars, poky, cast aside, fling, lock in, put away, free, put to sleep

rack, gas chamber, strap, stocks, ax, guillotine, thumbscrew, cowhide, rope, block, captivity, lash, bull whip, gallows, cane, gibbet, solitary confinement, truncheon, electric chair, thong, noose, whipping post, whip, rod, switch, rawhide, birch rod, stake, scaffold, maiden, iron, torture chamber

straight jacket, house of correction, Newgate, confine, sponging house, big house, can, collar, coop, Attica, brig, black hole, cooler, limbo, cage, Leavenworth, gaol, Dartmoor or the Moor, bridewell, death house, tank, guardroom, Holloway, irons, vise, handcuff, penal colony, Andaman Islands, Alcatraz, shackle, pillory, harness, San Quentin, tether, cell, Alcatraz or the Rock, stockade, jug, Belsen, guardhouse, keep, reformatory, Wormwood Scrubs, carcel, jailhouse, penal settlement, calaboose, reform school, bridle, pound, dungeon, house of detention, Dannemora, penal institution, the Bastille, pinion, pen, stronghold, goal, Broadmoor, Tower of London, Marshalsea, Fleet, penitentiary, manacle, hulks, fence, Bastille, lockup, oubliette, concentration camp, stir, correctional facility, Botany Bay, detention camp, prison

lock up, condemn, impound, fetter, sentence, imprison, incarcerate

trap, barrier, envelopment, enclosure, confinement