0 past simple and past participle of jail --
1 to put someone in a jail: --
He was jailed for three years.
Travel permits set temporal and geographical limits to journeys, and refugees apprehended by the security services without such a document are liable to be jailed. 14.
Some were arrested and briefly jailed.
A decade later, the costs are clear: nearly a million people jailed for drug violations, many of them minor possession charges.
Huge numbers of older children found themselves jailed for vagrancy as a result.
If it were absolute and operative at every stage of a prosecution, the defendant could never be jailed until conviction.
Refugees and the politically disenfranchised were enumerated, classified, controlled, isolated, forcibly employed, resettled or even jailed.
Thus, the government has banned and confiscated editions of papers printing materials it finds objectionable and jailed journalists and editors.
Opposition parties were banned or harassed out of existence, defiant leaders were exiled or jailed.
