Englishjail (British also gaol)
noun
he was arrested and thrown into jail:
prison, penal institution, place of detention, lockup, place of confinement, guardhouse, correctional facility, detention center;
young offender institution, youth custody center;
North American penitentiary, jailhouse, boot camp, stockade, house of correction;
informal the clink, the slammer, inside, stir, the jug, the big house, the brig, the glasshouse;
British, informal the nick;
North American, informal the can, the pen, the cooler, the joint, the pokey, the slam, the skookum house, the calaboose, the hoosegow;
British, informal , dated chokey, bird, quod;
historical pound, roundhouse, bagnio;
British, historical approved school, borstal, bridewell;
Scottish, historical tollbooth;
French, , historical bastille;
North American, historical reformatory.
verb
she was jailed for killing her husband:
imprison, put in prison, send to prison, incarcerate, lock up, take into custody, put under lock and key, put away, intern, confine, detain, hold prisoner, hold captive, hold, put into detention, constrain, immure, put in chains, put in irons, clap in irons;
British detain at Her Majesty's pleasure;
informal send down, put behind bars, put inside;
British, informal bang up.
▷antonyms acquit; release.