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prisoning

/ˈpɹɪzənɪŋ/

prisoning is the present participle and gerund of prison.

Meaning of prison

Verb

prison (third-person singular simple present prisons, present participle prisoning, simple past and past participle prisoned)

  1. (transitive) To imprison.

See all 4 meanings of prison

Questions about prisoning

What is prisoning the present participle and gerund of?
Prisoning is the present participle and gerund of prison.
How do you pronounce prisoning?
Prisoning is pronounced /ˈpɹɪzənɪŋ/.

Words near prisoning in the dictionary

  1. prisonfuls
  2. prisonguard
  3. prisonguards
  4. prisonhouse
  5. prisonhouses
  6. prisoning
  7. prisonization
  8. prisonizations
  9. prisonize
  10. prisonized
  11. prisonizes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: prisoning (page history and authors); prison (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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