Synonyms for jailer
ˈdʒeɪ lərjail·er

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1. jailernoun

   Synonyms:
   warder, warden, guard, corrections officer

2. jailernoun

   One who enforces confinement in a jail or prison.

   Synonyms:
   warden, corrections officer, warder, guard

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1. prison guard, jailer, jailor, gaoler, screw, turnkeynoun

   someone who guards prisoners

   Synonyms:
   screw, shtup, turnkey, gaoler, nooky, jailor, roll in the hay, piece of ass, screw propeller, nookie, ass, screwing, prison guard, shag, piece of tail

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1. jailernoun

   Synonyms:
   warden, turnkey, sheriff

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1. List of paraphrases for "jailer":

   turnkey, captor

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How to use jailer in a sentence?

1. W. Somerset Maugham:

   Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

2. Nathaniel Hawthorne:

   What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart What jailer so inexorable as one's self

3. I. F. Stone:

   Those who set out nobly to be their brother's keeper sometimes end up by becoming his jailer. Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

4. Alan Marshall Beck:

   A boy is a magical creature you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can't lock him out of your heart. You can get him out of your study, but you can't get him out of your mind. Might as well give up he is your captor, your jailer, your boss and your master a freckled-faced, pint-sized, cat-chasing bundle of noise. But when you come home at night with only the shattered pieces of your hopes and dreams, he can mend them like new with two magic words Hi, Dad

5. Pamela Anderson:

   Captivity is still captivity no matter how gentle the jailer or the size of the cell.