Antonyms for jail
dʒeɪljail

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1. jailnoun

   Synonyms:
   slammer, imprison

2. jailnoun

   To imprison.

   Synonyms:
   slammer, imprison

3. jailnoun

   Confinement in a jail.

   Synonyms:
   slammer

4. jailnoun

   school

   I have to go to jail 5 days a week.

   Synonyms:
   slammer

5. jailnoun

   The condition created by the requirement that a horse claimed in a claiming race not be run at another track for some period of time (usually 30 days).

   Synonyms:
   slammer

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1. jail, jailhouse, gaol, clink, slammer, poky, pokeyverb

   a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence)

   Synonyms:
   clink, pokey, poky, slammer, jailhouse, click, gaol

2. imprison, incarcerate, lag, immure, put behind bars, jail, jug, gaol, put away, remandverb

   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"

   Synonyms:
   throw out, toss out, discard, put to sleep, immure, jug, tuck away, toss away, lock, cast away, remand, lock up, remit, shut up, send back, cast aside, put behind bars, fall back, dawdle, dispose, imprison, fall behind, put aside, shut away, cast out, chuck out, toss, throw away, gaol, fling, lock in, lock away, tuck in, lag, put away, incarcerate

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1. jailnoun

   Synonyms:
   prison, lockup, calaboose, workhouse, limbo

How to use jail in a sentence?

1. Adrian Peterson:

   It’s blown out of proportion. Me and the wife got into an argument on the plane. That was pretty much the gist of it. I ended up grabbing her hand and taking her ring off her finger. She did n’t press any charges. The state of California pressed charges because there was a scratch on her hand. Literally that’s why I went to jail, because the ring left a scratch on her finger. We just had a disagreement. I know the headlines : Domestic violence. Adrian Peterson ’d think I beat her up or something. It was nothing like that.

2. Natalia Gebert:

   If you give a lift to a refugee at the Ukrainian border you are a hero. If you do it at the Belarus border you are a smuggler and could end up in jail for eight years.

3. Selma Blair:

   I do, I do think James Toback belongs in jail, i would hope that he would be found guilty.

4. Judd Apatow:

   I absolutely would like to see him in jail, that’s where people who commit sexual assaults go.

5. Eric Parnes:

   There is something fundamentally wrong when someone who has over a double-digit amount of priors is first able to be out of jail. That is a problem in itself.

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