The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word IMPRISON
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result IMPRISON
- Lock up young man supporting African warriors without resistance
- Rascal recalled man’s address working in jail
- Pen like that entering mark shortly
- Incarcerate troublemakers working across Rhode Island
- Lock up the little devil, having rejected classroom show of dissent?
- Shop reduced some in rip off
- Jail is likely after politician nabbed by taxman
- Lock up mischief-maker, revolutionary Irish boy
- 18 Down literally in unending fix — shut up!
- One politician on right is about to shut up?
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What does IMPRISON mean?
IMPRISON verb- To put in or as if in prison; confine.