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imprison (verb), imprisons; imprisoned; imprisoning
1. To confine, to incarcerate, or to place in confinement: The convicted criminal was imprisoned for 10 years.
2. Etymology: from Old French prisoun, "prison, imprisonment" altered (by influence of pris, "taken") from earlier preson, from Latin prensionem, prensio; a shortened form of prehensionem, prehensio, "a taking"; a noun of action from the stem of prehendere, "to take".
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Father who imprisoned his daughter
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Father who imprisoned daughter to go on trial

Josef Fritzl, who has admitted imprisoning his daughter in a cellar for 24 years and fathering seven children by her, will go on trial on March 16, 2009, on charges including murder, an Austrian court said Thursday.

Fritzl, 73, has been charged by prosecutors with the murder of one of his daughter's children who died shortly after birth. He is also charged with rape, enslavement, incest, coercion, and deprivation of liberty.

1. rape: The crime of forcing an unwilling or legally incompetent person to participate in sexual intercourse.

Destructive assault, as on a city, landscape, etc.

2. enslavement: The process of making someone a slave.
3. incest: Sexual relations between people who are so closely related that their marriage is illegal or forbidden by custom; such as, with a man's daughter.
4. coercion: To force to act or to think in a certain way by use of pressure, domination, restraining, or forcibly controlling.
5. deprivation of liberty: the act of taking a person's freedom away or preventing someone from having personal freedom from servitude or confinement or oppression.
—From the International Herald Tribune; Reuters; Vienna; January 23, 2009; page 8.
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