gaolgaol /dʒeɪl/ noun, verb 
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Verb TableVERB TABLE
gaol
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | gaol |
| he, she, it | gaols | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | gaoled |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have gaoled |
| he, she, it | has gaoled | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had gaoled |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will gaol |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have gaoled |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am gaoling |
| he, she, it | is gaoling | |
| you, we, they | are gaoling | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was gaoling |
| you, we, they | were gaoling | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been gaoling |
| he, she, it | has been gaoling | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been gaoling |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be gaoling |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been gaoling |
THESAURUS► prison
a British spelling of jail a large building where people are kept as a punishment for a crime or while they are waiting to go to court for their trial: · He was sentenced to five years in prison.· Wandsworth Prison
► jail a prison, or a similar smaller building where prisoners are kept for a short time: · This old building is the jail that Butch Cassidy escaped from in 1887.· He was taken to a cell in the Los Angeles County Jail.· 58% of prisoners are in jail for non-violent crimes.· The strikers were harassed, beaten and put in jail for trespassing.· Grover got caught for not paying his taxes and was sent to jail.
► gaol British English another way of spelling jail: · He spent the night in gaol.
► penitentiary American English a large prison for people who are guilty of serious crimes: · the Ohio State Penitentiary· The murderer served 10 years at the penitentiary in Stillwater.· the abandoned federal penitentiary on Alcatraz Island
► correctional facility American English formal an official word for a prison: · 1,000 prisoners rioted at the North County Correctional Facility.
► detention centre British English, detention center American English a place where young people who have done something illegal are kept, because they are too young to go to prison. Also used about a place where people who have entered a country illegally are kept: · Kevin, who had been abandoned by his mother, had been in and out of detention centres all his life.· a juvenile detention center· Harmondsworth detention centre, near Heathrow airport
► open prison British English a prison in which prisoners have more freedom than in an ordinary prison, usually because their crimes were less serious: · In some open prisons, prisoners are allowed to go home at weekends.
► cell a small room in a prison or police station, where someone is kept as a punishment: · a prison cell· Conditions were poor, and there were several prisoners to one cell.
WORD SETS► Jail & punishmentborstal, nouncell, nounchain, nounchain gang, nounconcentration camp, nounconcurrent, adjectiveconfinement, nounconvict, nouncorrectional, adjectivecustodial sentence, nouncustody, noundeath row, noundetainee, noundetention, noundetention centre, noundrunk tank, noundungeon, nounfetter, verbfetters, noungaol, gaoler, noungovernor, nounguard, verbgulag, nounhandcuff, verbhandcuffs, nounincarcerate, verbinmate, nouninside, adverbintern, verbinternee, nouninternment, nounjailbreak, nounlabour camp, nounlifer, nounmanacle, nounold lag, nounopen prison, nounoubliette, nounparole, nounparole, verbpen, nounpenal, adjectivepenitentiary, nounpillory, nounpokey, nounpolitical prisoner, nounporridge, nounpreventive detention, nounprison, nounprison camp, nounprisoner, nounprisoner of conscience, nounprisoner of war, nounprison visitor, nounreformatory, nounremand home, nounremission, nounserve, verbshackle, nounshackle, verbsolitary, nounsolitary confinement, nounstretch, nounthumbscrew, nounwarden, nounwarder, nounyardbird, noun
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