jail-v; 1 Senses

Sense Number 1: confine in or as if in a jail

Examples:
A Spanish court has jailed the reporter who interviewed the rebels.
A psychic fraudster was jailed for selling false predictions.
You forgot the shameless way Fred jailed the most corrupt governor in Tennessee history.
Well nobody's been jailed for exercising the First Amendment...yet.

Mappings:
VerbNet: pocket-9.10
FrameNet: Imprisonment
PropBank: jail.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1