Synonyms for prisoner
ˈprɪz ə nər, ˈprɪz nərpris·on·er

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1. prisoner, captivenoun

   a person who is confined; especially a prisoner of war

   Synonyms:
   captive

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1. prisonernoun

   Synonyms:
   captive

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1. List of paraphrases for "prisoner":

   prisoners, inmate, detainee, captive, convict, detained, captives, inmates, detainees, captured, pows

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1. Carrie Fisher:

   She's a prisoner of a giant testicle who has a lot of saliva going on and she does not want to wear that thing and it's ultimately that chain, which you're now indicating is some sort of accessory to SM, that is used to kill the giant saliva testicle, that's asinine.

2. Jeffrey Rosenzweig:

   Unless the prisoner is unconscious, then drugs two and three will cause pain -- torturous punishment, in violation of the Eighth Amendment, and state guarantees against cruel and unusual punishment.

3. Charles Blanke:

   Placed into a pure nitrogen environment, the convict would be unconscious within a minute (possibly even after a breath or two) and would be dead soon after, its failure rate, that is, cases in which the prisoner survives, would likely be much lower than what we see with current death penalty methods.

4. Italo Calvino:

   I am prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle and there is no imagining what new forms they may assume.

5. Ben Jonson:

   There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.