what does put behind bars mean?
PUT BEHIND BARS as VERB
- Meaning
- lock up or confine, in or as in a jail
Synonym(s)
Usage Example(s)
- The suspects were imprisoned without trial
- the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life
Hypernyms(s) put behind bars is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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